Instruktionsvideo til mine udenlandske studerende.
FORWARD FOCUS
It is important to put your best voice forward. Remember that your voice is part of your appearance. Effective verbal communication depends not only on what you say, but also on how you sound.
When you speak, you make sound in your larynx (voice box) with your vocal folds. Your vocal folds are soft tissue folds that consist of muscle, ligament and mucous membrane.
EXERCISE:
Humming: Highlights anterior frontal vibrations in your lips, teeth and facial bones. Begin with lips gently closed with jaw released. Take an easy breath in and exhale while saying “hum”. Begin with the nasal sound /m/ and gently glide from a high to a low pitch as if you were sighing. Make gentle chewing movements whilst humming. Finally gently turn your head from side to side while you are still humming and making the chewing movement.
Don’t forget your vocal cool down after extensive vocal use. Gently humming feeling the focus of the sound on the lips is an excellent way to cool down the voice. You should hum gentle glides on the sound “m” feeling a tickling vibration in the lip/nose are. You can find this exercise in the video below.
(I give courses in Public Speaking and Presentation Skills Training at The University of Southern Denmark)
