Speaking Tips
“People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
Being Funny Is a Skill: Awareness Is What Makes It Land Well With Others
Use humour with better timing, tone, and awareness so jokes feel light, inclusive, and enjoyable instead of awkward, confusing, or hurtful.
Use humour with better timing, tone, and awareness so jokes feel light, inclusive, and enjoyable instead of awkward, confusing, or hurtful.
This guide gives practical examples, clearer wording, and simple speaking structures you can use in real conversations.
Read being funny is a skill: awareness is what makes it land well with others to understand the situation more fully and practise choosing words that sound clear, calm, and useful.
Use the examples to notice what usually happens in the conversation, what the other person may need, and how your next sentence can make the situation easier to handle.
Different Tones of Speaking and How They Affect People
See how different tones of speaking affect listeners, including condescending, patronizing, collaborative, supportive, caring, natural, sarcastic, and assumptive tones.
How to Ask Someone to Do a Task at Work Clearly and Politely
Ask colleagues or team members to do a task at work in a way that is polite, clear, short, respectful, and not patronizing.
What to Do When a Conversation Goes Quiet
Simple ways to stay calm, restart naturally, and handle quiet moments in conversation without pressure.
What to Say When You Don’t Know What to Say
What to say when your mind goes blank, with simple responses that keep conversations moving without pressure.
How to Stay on Topic When You Speak
Use a simple structure to stay on topic when you speak so your answers remain clear, focused, and easy to follow.
How to Keep a Conversation Going (Without Feeling Awkward)
Keep a conversation going more naturally by choosing the right place, the right time, and a simple structure that helps connection feel easier.
What You Might Not Realise About How Our Website Uses Cookies
Understand what happens when you accept or reject cookies on Spekero, and how cookies help improve content, tools, and website performance.
Turn Your Speech into a Personalised English Improvement Report
Create a personalised English improvement report from your speech, review corrected and professional versions, and save or share your progress.
How to Answer Questions Without Rambling
A simple method for answering questions clearly without rambling, so your responses stay focused, natural, and easy to follow.
Why Being a Good Listener Can Help You Become a Better Speaker
Strong listening skills can help you respond more clearly, stay relevant in conversations, and become a more confident speaker.
How to Tell Clear and Simple Stories About Past Events
A simple structure for explaining past events clearly, so your story is easy to follow, well organised, and more interesting to listeners.
Why You Sound Different in Your Head vs In Reality
Why your voice sounds different in recordings, why listening back can feel uncomfortable, and how to use that awareness to improve your speaking.
How to Stop Overthinking When You Speak
Practical ways to stop overthinking when speaking so you can sound more natural, confident, and clear in conversations.
How to Improve English Pronunciation
Practical ways to improve pronunciation step by step so your speech feels clearer and easier to follow.
What Is a Good Speaking Speed?
Understand words per minute, how speaking speed affects clarity, and how to find a pace that feels natural.
How to Reduce Filler Words
Cut down on words like um, uh, and like so your speaking feels more confident and polished.
How to Improve Speaking Clearly
Simple ways to sound clearer, calmer, and easier to understand in daily conversations and presentations.
Quick Tips
A few short speaking tips from Instagram for quick inspiration and easy practice. If this helped you, share it with someone you care about 😊 Small improvements in communication can make a big difference in everyday relationships.