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... breathing . The breath should be centered at the diaphragm . This respiratory muscle should be strong and active enough to keep the breath so centered . Full breaths give support to the tones . There are some persons who attempt to make ...
... breathing . The breath should be centered at the diaphragm . This respiratory muscle should be strong and active enough to keep the breath so centered . Full breaths give support to the tones . There are some persons who attempt to make ...
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... breath is supporting the tones . Let the words slip out on top of the breath . An apt illustration is that of a boy riding into shore on the top of a surf board : the wave = the breath the boy on the surfboard = the word Taking the ...
... breath is supporting the tones . Let the words slip out on top of the breath . An apt illustration is that of a boy riding into shore on the top of a surf board : the wave = the breath the boy on the surfboard = the word Taking the ...
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... breath control to speaking and reading : 1. Breathe through the nostrils with the mouth open , repeating the preceding exercises according to this method of breathing . As the continual taking of the breath directly through the mouth ...
... breath control to speaking and reading : 1. Breathe through the nostrils with the mouth open , repeating the preceding exercises according to this method of breathing . As the continual taking of the breath directly through the mouth ...
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according action Alfred Noyes amendment Articulation Assignment audience Barty breath Bring to class bylaws called chair chairman character Choose Circumflex comedy committee consonants conversation courtesy David Copperfield debate deductive reasoning definite diacritic dialect diphthongs drama Edmond Rostand English etiquette exercises Explanations expression feeling front vowel gesture give given Group individual inflections interest interpretation Julius Cæsar Key words lips main motion Malaprop Mally manner meeting Merchant of Venice method mid vowels Modern move One-Act Plays open forum pantomime pause person phonetic phrase Pickwick platform poem Polonius practice Pronounce pronunciation question read aloud rehearsals resonance ROBERT BROWNING Rudyard Kipling rules scene selection Self-appraisal sentence short speaker speaking SPEECH ATTAINMENTS Chapter speech topics stage story Story-telling student Suggested References syllables thought tion tongue Transcribe and read voice voiceless vote WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE