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How do I become more articulate when speaking and expand my vocabulary?
>>8053466
converse with articulate people
>>8053468
I'm bilingual so I don't speak English at my house. What do?
>>8053469
Speak to people outside of your house
>>8053471
Where do I find articulate people? Most people haven't even picked up a book in years in America.
>>8053466
Take an acting class that does Shakespeare.
Practice doing it and try to work on your confidence and self-esteem levels. I become far more articulate when I've had a beta blocker.
>>8053476
Universities are the best place.
You don't need to be enrolled. I just wander around the universities in my city and talk to random professors and grad students.
Most of them are willing to speak in depth about whatever they are working on because no one else wants to hear about it.
>>8053497
How do you go about doing it?
"Hey, I don't know your name but you look like you're knowledgeable and around here, tell me copious amounts about whatever you specialise in?"
>>8053497
Thanks man.
Do you guys watch certain YouTubers or listen to podcasts? Reading more would certainly help as well, right?
>>8053476
university, one of the few things I got out of the university was learning how to pronounce words I only ever read.
>>8053506
From whom?
>>8053501
>he doesn't know how to socialise
I want reptilians to leave.
>>8053501
Yeah basically.
Sometimes I will look for someone that I specifically want to talk to on the university website.
Professors' office hours are usually easy to find so I will just go at that time and pretend to be a student.
I start email correspondences as well.
Also, some people like to talk when they are eating but some do not.
>>8053466
one of these girls has tits and another doesnt
>>8053555
You can see the faint shirt crease indented by her small breasts.
You speak the same way you think. Think with big words.
>>8053502
Reading helps. YouTubers are generally troglodytes/blowhards/autists. Nobody with a shred of credentials spends their time presenting their opinions in the form of Youtube videos.
>>8053590
Thanks man. Should I stop watching YouTube videos, then?
>>8053581
Poor Anon. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?
>>8053590
>Nobody with a shred of credentials spends their time presenting their opinions in the form of Youtube videos
Don't talk shit about Papa Franku
>>8053594
You don't have to stop, just be critical. I might be biased though because the only YouTubers I've watched are historical/political, and the people in that field (Stephen Molyneux, John Green, Steven Crowder, Paul Joseph Watson, the neckbeard "anarchists," etc) are all mongoloids.
>>8053608
He's an autist, but at least he's somewhat unique in the landscape of Youtube
Take ten hits of acid, read a dictionary from cover to cover and then watch the movie Clerks.
Worked for me.
>>8054458
sounds like a recipe for madness. or the cure for autism
>>8053466
>not using contractions and local dialect
Fucking pseuds.
If you want to be literate, read regularly, and when you encounter a word you don't know, look it up. After that, use the word a few times in conversation to reinforce its definition. Then move on.
I work at a call-centre doing tech-support. A shit job, but it's improved my diction immensely, and choice of vocabulary. I can deal with people using plain speech if it's something to be done up quickly, or put down condescending people by using the most convoluted speech I can, and I've learned how to talk in a very precise manner seldom repeating myself. Most of my co-workers spend about 10min.-20min. on each call, I never go longer than 5min.
>>8053466
>caring whether people use contractions
Literal autism.
>>8053555
one of those girls had tits and the other does not
>>8055439
It does induce madness but you're more verbally eloquent as a result. Win win
If I feel like I'm not writing well enough, I'll sometimes use an app to quiz me on GRE vocab and such. Then I'll go back through and substitute words. This latter part I do anyways after a rough draft.
