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Voice as an Important Component of CommunicationYour voice is the most important tool you have in conversing!People will build a perception of you through your voice.Prepared by: Winkie Roasa 6

Components of Voice Quality

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Think Fast!Remember: time is on your side! Thoughts move about four times as fast as speech. With practice, while you are listening you will also be able to think about what you are hearing, really understand it, and give feedback to the speaker.

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Give me TongueTongue twisters help loosen the mouth and vocal cords so, itll be easier to enunciate every syllable and word. 1. The sixth sick Sheiks sixth thick sheep. 2. This is a zither. Is this a zither. 3. How much wood could a woodchuck chuck, if a wood chuck could chuck wood? 4. Thin red leather, thick yellow leather, thin red leather, thick yellow leather.Prepared by: Winkie Roasa 73

Tongue Twisters cont5. The defective detective defectively detecting a defective detector. 6. Moses supposes his toeses are roses but Moses supposes erroneously. For nobodys toeses are posies or roses as Moses supposes his toeses to be. 7. Rubber baby buggy bumpers 8. Which witch switched the switch? The Swiss witch named Sue Witts switched the switch.Prepared by: Winkie Roasa 74

4. Betty Botter bought some butter, but said she, this butters bitter. If I put it in my batter, that would make my batter bitter. But a bit of better butter in the beater, that would make my batter better. 5. Amidst the mists and misty frosts, Ms. Ty thrusts her fists against the posts and still insists she sees the misty ghosts.Prepared by: Winkie Roasa 75

6. Rad Roy is the ruler of rural Raleigh. He relishes roller-blading while eating really red, ripe raspberries. 7. Thats the thought that they threaded through their tremendously thin, tan, trim thighs. 8. For four flowers and our floured floors. 9. Boots on the roots, soot on the roof.

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perfect, fat prefects to party with. 11. Fanny Potter flew past five pathetic figures on a playing field that fired pellets perfectly. 12. Vast fields of verdant firs vainly fantasize of victoriously finding valiant foresters for vegetation. 13. Barrels of vino blindly vacationing between vacant, bold vats of barren vinegar.Prepared by: Winkie Roasa 77

14.Seven saddled zebras zigged instead of zagging in a special nosagging zone in Central Zimbabwe 15.The precision of Zorros sword casually zaps the usual suspects into serving dessert in the desert for deserving Zionists in Sulawesi. 16.I believe we live with a bit of a beat. We willingly leave this week, to see that next weeks wick is lit for these seats Winkie Roasa sit-in. at the Prepared by: 78

17.The thrill that drives thankless toreadors towards their divine theories is the driving thump of the thundering leather toes of their toros. 18.Shit, Charlenes shining chances shared chosen shadows cherished by shimmering charades with fashionably challenged Sharon.Prepared by: Winkie Roasa 79

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