Hello and welcome to this video. Today I'm going to share how to not get nervous speaking English
in public. And I want to share with you my five best public speaking tips
to help you feel confident walking into any room and share your ideas,
confidently. Of course I'm Jennifer Forrest, and this channel is dedicated to helping you
feel confident speaking English in public, so you can take your career and your life to the next
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Do you get nervous right before you're about to speak English in public? Maybe your hands start to
shake or your heart starts racing or you get that feeling in your stomach. Does that ever happen
to you? Well don't worry because in this video we're going to talk about how to not get nervous
speaking English in public in any situation. But before we begin with my five best tips I just
want you to know one thing, it's totally normal. That reaction that you get, that physical reaction
is absolutely normal. Did you know that public speaking is the number one fear in the entire
world, and not in your own native language. So you can imagine how much more difficult it is when
you're speaking in a foreign language, in front of people. So first of all just know there's nothing
wrong with you. It's totally normal to have that reaction. Now, let's talk about the five tips that
you can use to feel confident and not get nervous when you're speaking in public. Tip number one,
the first thing that I want you to do is relax. Now when I say I want you to relax. I'm talking
about your physical body. I want you to physically, relax your body. Because when
we're nervous when we're under stress. We also tighten, we tighten up our body, but did you
know that it has been scientifically proven by the medical community, that you can not feel stress.
If your body is physically, relaxed, so just relax your body relax your arms relax this
area of your chest and stomach as well so just relax, relax, but I want you to still maintain
good posture, because it isn't very professional to be hunched over, in a bad position, although
it is very relaxing, to do something like that so you need to relax your body, but still maintain
a professional position for when you're speaking. So that's tip number one tip number two is to use
positive visualization, because while I mean guts. When you think about speaking in public,
not that you're actually speaking in public, but when you just think about speaking in public,
most likely a negative image comes to mind, you imagine the audience,
judging you, because you made a grammar mistake or judging you, because your accent is too thick
or you imagine yourself forgetting all your words and not knowing what to say, you imagine yourself
not being able to answer the question, you imagine yourself feeling really nervous and not confident
and doing a bad job. Well guess what do you think having all of those negative images in your mind
are going to help you feel confident going into a situation. Isn't it just a normal reaction
that you would feel stress and nervousness, if you anticipate something negative happening.
That is your body doing its job. If you haven't negative image in your mind and your
body reacts negatively, everything is working properly, that is what your body is meant to do.
So one thing that you can do is to change those mental images, change them to successful
images of Imagine yourself opening your mouth, and having the words flow well confidently. Imagine
the audience cheering for you and telling you you did an amazing job, imagine yourself standing
in front of that audience feeling confident and feeling proud. Now do you think you would have a
different feeling in your body. If you had all of those positive images instead of negative images.
Well of course the answer is yes. So you need to work on your positive visualization. Tip
number three is to focus on your audience and not yourself. Now when I use the word audience,
I'm not talking about 100 person TED Talk, although that may be the case, your audience could
be one person, your boss, your coworker, your friend, a hiring manager, it could be just one
person, but a lot of students when they go into a real situation, and they're going to be speaking
they're focused on themselves, they're focused on their accent, their English, their feelings, their
emotions. But aren't you forgetting the reason why your public speaking. Anyway, you have a message
to share, right, maybe your message is simply updating your boss on the status of the project,
maybe your message is explaining to the hiring manager, why you would be the perfect choice for
the position. Now, you go into a situation, and you're only thinking about yourself, and you're
not thinking about your audience. Well, that's kind of selfish, isn't it. And when you think just
about yourself is going to be more likely that you have all of these hesitations and negative
thoughts and judgments and fears, but if you put all your focus on your audience, then you're not
focusing on your English skills or your fear, your anxiety, and if we don't put focus on something,
it will just naturally minimize. So if we don't focus on our anxiety, and our nervousness,
and we focus on the audience, and the information you want to share with that audience your message
will then you're going to just feel more relaxed, less nervous and your audience is going to really
appreciate the attention that you're giving them, and it's going to make them think that you really
care so it's going to help you feel less nervous and also help you impress your audience at the
same time. Tip number four is to structure your idea. Imagine you needed to go to a job interview
in a different part of town, a different part of your city that you've never been to before,
and you get in your car and you don't have a GPS, and you just start driving. Are you going to feel
a little bit nervous, a little bit nervous but you might get lost a little bit nervous
that you might not get there in time a little bit nervous that you had no idea where you're going or
how you're going to get there. Well of course you would feel nervous in that situation, if you were
going somewhere new without a GPS, right. Well, if you go into a situation where your public speaking
in a meeting in a job interview, giving a presentation, and you have no idea how you're
going to begin, how you're going to transition to your next idea, and how you're going to
end, you're going to feel nervous, right, is the same situation, trying to get to a
location without a GPS. Well in this situation when we're talking about public speaking,
structures, simple structures are going to help you get to your message in a very easy way, in a
very organized way, just like a GPS helps you get to your destination in a very easy to follow way.
So a simple structure that you can use is you need an introduction, a body and a conclusion.
If you go into a job interview and you know how to start your answer. And you know how to end
your answer, that's already going to make you feel a lot more confident and feel less nervous, and if
you know what to put in the body of your answer as well. And you can do that in any situation,
you can have a simple introduction, body, conclusion for anything you're asked,
even in a social situation when you're telling your friend about what you did last night, or
your upcoming vacation in any situation you're communicating, you don't want to just open your
mouth and see what comes out, because most likely what comes out, isn't going to be very good.
And that's going to make you feel very nervous, but if you open your mouth and you have a clear
beginning, middle and end, and you know how to transition from the beginning middle and end,
then you're going to feel confident and you're not going to feel nervous. And tip number five is to
practice, practice, practice. Now when you go into a job interview, of course, you should practice,
many people practice, The day before the night before, as they're driving to the job interview.
And, obviously you're going to feel nervous if you've only practiced once or twice. You need to
practice again and again and again and again and again. If you feel a lot of nervousness, that's
probably just your body telling you that you haven't prepared and you prepare by practicing.
Now, some nervousness is natural and will always be there, even if you do practice and prepare
so you're not looking for zero, nervousness, but you are looking for a low level of nervousness
where it doesn't impact your message and you can practice any situation, you can practice answering
questions you weren't expecting. And then when you're asked a question you weren't expecting.
You'll feel confident because of all the practice you've done in the past. So if you want to feel
confident, it's absolutely going to come from practicing and preparing. So now you have my five
best tips to help you not get nervous speaking English in public. So let me know in the comments,
which tip was your favorite? Which one are you going to start using today? So let me know in the
comments. And also if you have an additional tip you would like to share with your fellow students,
well then put that in the comments as well. And if you found this video helpful please hit the like
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