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Free Speech Lesson

Fail-Safe Questions

Fail-Safe Questions
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For this week’s accent reduction advice, we have a speech tip video below. Also, whether you are a student meeting new people or an adult who knows no one at a work gathering, you can use fail-safe questions with particular themes to open and start conversations.  Today, here are three:
  • The journey theme: “Are you from here or did you move here? When? Why?”
  • The recent past: “What have you been working on lately?”
  • The situation you are engaged in now: “How do you know the host?  What did you think of that presentation?”

Rerun from 11/4/2013 and 01/30/2017

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