5 Tips To Stop Mumbling While Speaking

Mumbling is basically while speaking when your words are not clear or loud enough to another person. It becomes difficult for the listener to interpret and understand your message. It makes you appear less confident and less commanding. It’s an issue in speaking but it is not a disease. It can be overcome by some simple tips.

Communication is something where your messages are sent to another person by any means. Although there are some distractions in other means too, yet this article will focus on the issue of mumbling while speaking. Do not lose your confidence while speaking and choose to be heard by others. Make your voice louder and yes, an authoritative voice comes up with the weightage of your words. The stronger your ideas and opinion, the more chances to overcome mumbling. So following are 5 major tips to cover up the issue of mumbling.

▶️ Exercises for Facial Muscles

• Here are some exercises for mouth muscles too, to stop mumbling. One of the exercises is to put the knuckle of your thumb inside your mouth and bite down gently. Now read any of the text louder and clear. It will improve your speaking and makes it engaging. Do this exercise daily for a minute or a two. You will yourself see the difference.
• Another beneficial exercise for improving your facial muscles and mouth muscles is that you should practice a louder vowels. Rehearse for vowels (a,e,i,o,u) daily for half an hour as it will bring out the voice out of your throat clearly and louder. It will improve your voice and you will not speak the words inside your mouth only. The words will go to another person and will be heard in a more appropriate manner.

▶️ Twist your Tongue a Little

For better practice, do more than regular reading. Twisting your tongue means you have to try tongue twisters. This is the best way to give a throw to your voice.

Benefit- You will get to know the usage of words and to quickly change from one word to another but with a confusing twist. Here are some of the tongue twisters which you can practice to stop mumbling.

• Peter piper picked a peck of pickled peppers and if peter piper a peck of pickled peppers. Where’s the peck of pickled peppers peter piper picked?
• She sells seashells by the seashores.
• I have got a date at a quarter to eight; i will see you at the gate so don’t be late.

▶️ Exercises for Tongue

Yes, you have read it clearly. There are some exercises for tongue too which you can do at home to stop mumbling.

• Rotate your tongue inside your mouth widely, clockwise and Anti-clockwise. It will strengthen your tongue and your tongue will get able to touch each and every part of mouth which is required for pronouncing different words of different languages.
• After this, pull out your tongue and push it back by pressing it with your finger. Do it against the tongue. It will strengthen your tongue.

▶️ Weigh your Words for Choosing to be Heard

Think before you speak, an old proverb saying that if you weigh your words before you speak, then there will be more chances of the words to be appropriate and not rude. Also, to stop mumbling there is a need to think before you speak. Choose your words wisely before it come out of your mouth as if you will speak quality content, there will be more chances that people will listen to your talk. Choose an authoritative and commanding personality and speak with the throw.

▶️ Make Mirror Your New Friend

Another common and highly beneficial technique to improve your IELTS speaking is talking in front of a mirror. When you speak in front of a mirror, you get to know about your expressions and your way of talking. You will get in contact with your facial gestures and you can try to improve them.

• If mumbling is a problem, it is better that you should start speaking in your mother tongue. It will, initially, improve a throw in your words.
• Then, try to read some texts or paragraphs by memorizing.
• At last, do it yourself. Be commanding day by day and hear your voice.

Another useful tip is to speak in front of something which is at some distance to you. It can be done alone, maybe in your study or bedroom. It can be done with a chair or table or anything which is in front of you. Imagine it as a person and speak and command it.

Again the tip is useful to improve your voice and throw.

Although the tips are very common it requires regular practice over the tips to solve this issue. Mumbling is very common and it can be seen in many people. Do not get panic, go with the flow and practice hard.

Best of luck!