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Clear speech

The basics of speaking clearly, in short lessons you can repeat: hearing your own habits, managing breath and voice, finishing every word, keeping a steady pace, and carrying meaning with stress and melody. This is speaking practice, not a clinical program.

  • 8 levels
  • 66 lessons
  • An exam and a certificate at every level
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How a levelworks

Each level is a set of short lessons and recorded practice, and ends with a spoken exam.

  1. Short lessons

    One idea, one example and an exercise you record right away.

  2. Recorded practice

    Every take measures your pace, your pauses and your filler words.

  3. Exam and certificate

    A spoken exam closes the level. Pass it and the certificate is yours.

Level by level,what’s in this course

  1. Level 1 · 6 lessons

    Know your voice

    Where you start, and how to notice your own speech.

    By the end of this level

    • Reads a short passage aloud at a steady pace, neither rushed nor dragging.
    • Pauses at periods and commas when reading, and not in the middle of a sentence.
    • Gets through an unprepared forty-five-second talk without long gaps.
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    Your first recordings

    • Your first take
    • Filler or pause?

    Notice your speech

    • Fast or slow?
    • What happens at the end of a sentence?

    Compare and record again

    • Find the pace gap
    • Record it again

  2. Level 2 · 7 lessons

    Breath and voice

    Easy breath, and a steady voice that lasts to the final word.

    By the end of this level

    • Finishes the last word of a sentence as audibly as the first, and keeps the volume from drifting from sentence to sentence.
    • Reads a long passage at an unhurried pace, refreshing breath at commas and periods.
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    Speaking breath

    • Easy breath
    • Short sentence, one breath
    • Breath points

    Voice through the sentence

    • Carry the ending
    • Meaning groups

    Using your voice

    • Easy voice start
    • Adjust your voice

  3. Level 3 · 8 lessons

    The sounds of American English

    Keeping every sound distinct, especially at the end of a word and at speed.

    By the end of this level

    • Keeps close vowels and consonants apart in connected speech, so a listener hears ship and not sheep.
    • Reads a short passage without dropping word endings or clipping every -ing.
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    Vowel clarity

    • Ship and sheep, full and fool
    • Bat, bet, but

    Lip sounds

    • P, B and M
    • F, V and W

    Tongue-tip sounds

    • T, D, L and R
    • S, Z, SH and TH

    Back of the mouth

    • K, G and NG
    • CH, J and Y

  4. Level 4 · 7 lessons

    Articulation and clarity

    Keep every syllable and every word ending intact, even as you speed up.

    By the end of this level

    • Says consonant clusters without dropping a sound and long words without losing a syllable.
    • Keeps words whole and understandable when reading at a pace close to conversation.
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    Articulation mechanics

    • Lip and tongue agility
    • Jaw opening and transitions

    Word clarity

    • Word beginnings and endings
    • Long and similar words

    Consonant clusters

    • Clusters, slow then fast

    Clarity under speed

    • Slow to a medium pace
    • Clarity as pace rises

  5. Level 5 · 7 lessons

    Fluent speech

    A natural pace, pauses in the right places, fewer fillers, and delivery that doesn't break up.

    By the end of this level

    • Starts a one-minute free talk without delay and rarely reaches for a filler sound.
    • Keeps a steady, understandable pace in free talk instead of speeding up with nerves.
    • Pauses between thought groups and doesn't stall in the middle of a phrase.
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    Set your pace

    • Find your pace
    • Change your pace

    Meaningful pauses

    • Pause between thought groups
    • Pause before the key word

    Fillers

    • Um becomes silence
    • "Like," "you know," "so"

    Unbroken delivery

    • Same topic, shrinking clock

  6. Level 6 · 5 lessons

    Stress and intonation

    Same words, different meaning. Stress, question melody, lists and a lively voice.

    By the end of this level

    • Ends a statement with a falling voice and a yes-or-no question with a rising one, using the same words.
    • Puts stress on the key word of a sentence and does not read a text on one note.
    • Keeps the voice up through a list, pauses briefly between items, and lets it fall on the last one.
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    Word and sentence stress

    • Stress the key word
    • Same sentence, different stress

    Intonation and melody

    • Statement and question melody
    • List intonation and sentence endings

    Break the monotone

    • Liven up a flat read

  7. Level 7 · 12 lessons

    Telling it well

    One main idea, a talk with a shape, and staying put together when nobody warned you.

    By the end of this level

    • Starts answering an unprepared question without a long silence.
    • Keeps going when stuck instead of restarting the sentence, and gives a reasoned suggestion without um or uh between the parts.
    • Holds a steady pace in unprepared speech and leaves the pauses between sentences.
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    One idea

    • Your main idea in one sentence
    • Explain it in fifteen seconds
    • Say it once, then close

    A talk with a shape

    • Beginning, middle, end
    • A reason and an example
    • Problem and solution in thirty seconds

    Explaining and storytelling

    • Explain a concept simply
    • Tell an event in order
    • Compare, then tell a mini story

    Improvising

    • Random topic, twenty and thirty seconds
    • Answer right away, then the follow-up
    • Sixty seconds, talking freely

  8. Level 8 · 14 lessons

    Speaking with impact

    Put everything together in real moments, then compare with where you started.

    By the end of this level

    • Finishes a persuasive talk of up to ninety seconds with few fillers and without speeding up.
    • Takes the floor in a meeting without delay and doesn't fall into a long silence when stuck.
    • Reads an announcement the way an announcer would, finishing word endings and pausing briefly between phrases.
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    Introducing yourself

    • The fifteen-second introduction
    • Thirty seconds and a steady opening

    Facing questions

    • Think, then answer plainly
    • Buy time with a pause

    A short talk

    • Opening a talk
    • One message, clear transitions
    • A close with weight, and a mini talk

    Defending a view

    • A clear claim and reasons
    • Answering the other side
    • A short persuasive talk

    Everyday messages

    • Leave a voicemail
    • Take the floor and explain briefly

    Final

    • The final talk
    • Putting it all together

Programs built on this course

The thirty-day reset

A selection of lessons and short drills from the first five levels of the diction course, plus a new item every day. You take a voice snapshot on the first, fifteenth and thirtieth day, and on the last day you compare its results with your first snapshot. If you miss a day, the program waits for you.

30 days·10 min a day

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