[Ask ] Good ways of speaking fluently and expressively

[mingtai1 (snake)]

I think being able to speak fluently and expressively are two different
kinds of learning, and it's hard to do one thing to improve them both
I just wonder, if I follow a native speaker to read out an article
(like mp3 on VOA news), will I really be able to speak more fluently?
(If we define "fluent" as being able to pronounce clearly, fluently
and gracefully in sentence structure)
I mean.. I just follow the scripts..without thinking the structure of the
sentence. It doesn't seem very effective.

And when I am about to talk, I often feel I can't give expressive and
...beautiful sentence structure like some public speakers.
What comes to my mind is only short sentences. I think reading the scripts
makes me clumsy in making graceful expressions.
Does anyone ever wonder about this? Reading without thinking ...is it good?
How to find a more effective way to speak both fluently and gracefully?
I think it's been a bottleneck for me for a long time.

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※ 編輯: mingtai1        來自: 140.109.16.193       (01/20 23:26)
→ djnospam:"Written English" is not quite the same as spoken E..
→ djnospam:(Unless all you want to to "read out loud" an article
→ djnospam:....)
推 Bigfatty73:I don't think that was ming's point..
→ Bigfatty73:you should listen to Martin Luther King Jr's speech
→ Bigfatty73:and John F. Kennedy...you'll see that it's not
→ Bigfatty73:grace nor beauty that matters
→ Bigfatty73:but of Brief and Concise
→ Bigfatty73:there's no particular shortcut. watch and learn kid
→ djnospam:I know it's not ming's point. It's something for him
→ djnospam:to think about.
→ mingtai1:To Bigfatty73: maybe you are right. Brief and concise
→ mingtai1:maybe I should train myself to be able to use most
→ mingtai1:appropriate words that exactly express what I want
推 Bigfatty73:I know exactly what you need, Toastmasters.org.tw
→ mingtai1:My work doesn't allow me to attend regularly :(