What Does Your Speech Reveal? We use language to express our identity. Our way of speaking varies and changes to reflect who we are and who we want to be. Carmen Fought asks the provocative ...

This exercise is designed to help you crystallize your thoughts on how American English is spoken around the country. Here is a map of the United States divided up into its major dialect regions.

The introduction and conclusion are essential to a speech. The audience will remember the main ideas even If the middle of the speech is a mess or nerves overtake the speaker. So if nothing else, get ...

Free listening activities for ESL teachers, including audio files and matching worksheets and tests. A powerful tool, provided by the U.S. Department of State's site, American English for English ...

Speech marks are these things. They have a few different uses, such as showing speech or to show you are quoting someone. Here is Rachel reporting. Rachel is typing up some breaking news.

Being nervous and anxious are normal reactions when preparing and delivering a speech. There is no real way to completely remove these feelings, but there are some ways to lessen them or to even use ...

First off, it's not a filibuster. But Booker speech has lasted over 20 hours, and is the most dramatic challenge to Trump’s ...

Jennifer Anaya-Serrano recalled being too shy to ask to join the speech team when she was a freshman. The High School senior said she couldn’t even talk to her teachers she was so afraid. With the ...