The Business Book of Tongue Twisters: Can You Communicate With Clarity?

By Joanne Zorian-Lynn

Try these terrific, tortuous articulation teasers
to tickle the tongue.

Packed with passion, power and pride, they’re perfect for polishing presentations.
Every speaker wishes to be understood, and these tongue-twisters are not only a curious challenge but also an invaluable tool and resource for anyone wanting to improve the clarity of their speech.
Eccentric, practical and enormous fun, there is no other book quite like this collection of more than 300 original diction-difficult phrases, designed to sharpen your vocal performance, created by the author using contemporary corporate language and idioms.
A speech, a sales pitch or an announcement can read well on the page but can prove hard to enunciate when spoken aloud.
The tongue-twisters are classified into speech-pattern groups that you can dip into and use to test your vocal dexterity – plus, there are activity tips including pronunciation guidelines and exercises.
With clarity comes confidence.
With confidence comes powerful communication.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu Publishing Services
• Release date: Dec 5, 2015
• ISBN: 9781483439556

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The

Business Book

of

Tongue-Twisters

Can You Communicate With Clarity?

Joanne Zorian-Lynn

Copyright © 2015 Joanne Zorian-Lynn.

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ISBN: 978-1-4834-3956-3 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4834-3955-6 (e)

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Lulu Publishing Services rev. date: 11/23/2015

Contents

Introduction

Key to Practising

Front Consonants

Lips

P

B

M

W

Lower Lip and Upper Teeth

F

V

Tongue Tip and Upper Teeth

th

TH

W V F TH

Middle Consonants

Tongue Tip and Upper Teeth Ridge

T

D

L

N

R

S

Z

Tongue Blade and Front of Hard Palate

sh

zh

ch

J

Back consonants

Back of Tongue and Soft Palate

Y

K

G

Ng

X

Open resonator

H

Vowels

A

E

I

O

U

Vowel Mixture

24 Diction Difficult Phrases

About the Author

WITH THANKS TO…..

BBC, British Voice Association, Vocal Care Network UK, Excellent Talent, Global Media, Channel 4 TV, Sky TV, Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performing Arts, Kim Hardy Photographer, Showsound, National Film and TV School, DRP Group, Aspect Ltd., Imagination Group, Helen Armitage, Tim Lynn, SGI-UK, Lulu publishing team and all the speakers I have had the pleasure of working with and those yet to speak up and speak out.

WHAT THEY SAY

A perfect preparation for a pitch. Fantastic!

Ava Regal - CEO Famous Brands Ltd.

It’s brilliant! I love it.

Kate Garraway – TV presenter and broadcaster.

You should buy it.

Jon Briggs- Original voice of Siri in the UK and BBC’s The Weakest Link.

They can hear me at the back now.

P. Spedding – International Airline Pilot.

To know what to teach and how to teach it needs a love of the subject and total empathy with people – brilliant teaching is finding the route to transfer thought to another – this little book does that.

Carol Royle – Actor - TV and Royal Shakespeare