Are you a good public speaker?

[ringmastery]

How would you rate your speech skills?

[Langis]

1. from 1-10 10 being best

1.001

[supernova]

2. 9 out of 10

I speak well, but I'm very shy and really have to prepare A LOT.

[TheWizardOfMudd]

14. Echo

Me too. When I was in junior high my teacher said I did it like I did it for a living.

But I do have to memorize or have the text before me, like politicians with their prompters.

I COULD BE PRESIDENT!

Only I would not lie, use bad logic, repeat talking points or buzz phrases, start needless wars, be uninformed and just read any old speech written by one of Cheney's psychos, pander to right wing christian wackos, etc. ;)

[Don_G]

3. Negative 10

:scared:

[flamingyouth]

4. Crappy

I talk way too fast when I'm nervous. But people tell me that I come across as "sincere" when I give a speech. So, I guess that ranks me as a "2" or so.

[Pale Blue Dot]

16. Do you give a lot of speeches?

How do you overcome your nervousness? :shrug:

[flamingyouth]

18. Well, I have this nice thing I think about

I doubt it would be helpful for anyone else, though.

[kixot]

5. 7-8

Depends on my preparation. I think I can belt out a good speech if I have to.

[DustMolecule]

6. uhm, well......you see, it's like this *smirk*

it's, it's, it's....well, fooled you once....uhhhhhhhhhm.....

(I'm as good, if not better, than some national leaders of late. Which doesn't mean much, does it ;-)

[2Design]

7. 5-8

I like speaking ....depends..... it can be fun....or scary as hell.

[Snow]

8. Pretty damn good - how good, you ask? Well, I'm a professor,

I teach med students, I'm not an MD but a PhD and in spite of that handicap, they nominated me for a teaching award. I felt really good about that, as you might imagine. Epidemiology is not the subject everyone waits for eagerly in med school. But I enjoy teaching it, & I guess it comes across.

[DustMolecule]

15. Congratulations! Very cool@being nominated for the teaching award

I had to look 'epidemiology' up in the dictionary. It sounds like it would be a very fascinating subject (with the right teacher, of course!)

[Guy Fawkes]

9. 10, at least...

I feel very comfortable, as long as I have no script. I hate scripts...

[Philosophy]

10. Maybe a 5

I can get my point across, but I always get a little nervous and start rambling.

[drdtroit]

11. Definitely 10

I'm a professional musician/vocalist and MC.
Do it all the time and have to constantly improvise.
It's all about being relaxed (like anything you do well).

[SarahB]

12. Good, even impromtu speeches

For formal things, I'm much better than at parties I think. I was a bit of a theater kid, so that whole performance thing never bothered me.

[Rabrrrrrr]

13. I'm quite good

I enjoy it, I'm comfortable doing it - in fact, it excites me! I wish I could do it more...

And, beyond all that, I know what I'm doing when I speak publicly and can control, my voice and - most importantly, and I'm not being sarcastic here, this is really, really important - old people can hear me clearly and get every word.

[saracat]

17. Excellent

I am an actor and acting coach as well as political speech coach.I once spoke on behalf of a candidate for whom I was working and the audience thought I should run instead. That was NOT a good thing!