Question by : is there anyway to learn a talk (public speaking) quickly?
i also have to learn a script aswell in the quickest time possible

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Answer by Domc
For your script, break it into easily memorized parts. Just take small paragraphs at a time. If you have monologues, break them into beats (beats are pauses in speech you make when your character would be thinking) and memorize it that way, as it will come much more naturally. For your speech, do the same. Break it into more manageable parts and work at it that way. When it comes to speaking in front of others, just remember that practice and repetition are key. Good luck!

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Question by DcLonelyBoy: Is there such a thing as “Intimacy phobia”?
So, I’m 28, almost 29, never had a serious relationship. There are a number of reasons for this, not least of which that I have Asperger’s Syndrome. Despite this, I wouldn’t call myself shy or timid. For one thing, I’m not afraid of public speaking or performances, which most people are. I’ve done plays. I sing karaoke regularly. I’ve gone skydiving. I have gone on a lot of dates, mostly through online services. The one girl I dated most seriously (a few months) once started a make-out session with me in the middle of a subway station. (True, it was night, but…) And, though I did enjoy it, I got tense and nervous, and inadvertantly came off as cold and disinterested. It ended shortly afterward. Once at karaoke night, I sang “Baby Got Back” and this girl who was at the bar with her friends, celebrating her birthday, got up and started grinding her rear end against me. When I did another song, she and two of her friends got up and leaned on me as I sang. Before I left,I stopped and wished her happy birthday. She said “Thanks for letting me dance with you. You made my party!” And hugged me. Do I ask her out, or even for her phone number? No! I start thinking “Well, she’s drunk, not really interested, plus she’s a smoker, so I wouldn’t want to…”
I’ve always thought that my problem was fear of rejection. No doubt, that’s potent, but I’ve built up some resistance, at least to the point where I can go on a date and not be too bummed out when it doesn’t work out. I still get jitters whenever I try to ask a friend out, but I’m beginning to wonder if, at a more fundamental level, I may actually have some fear of intimacy. Could I actually be afraid of that which I most desire? Could the experiences of my life, of being alone so long, have made me unable, unwilling to open up to someone, to trust someone? Is there precedent for this, a name for it, treatment? I’d appreciate any insight.

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Question by ortonchampion: Is There Any Real Cure For Having A anxiety disorder?
im sorry Re-post this again but i just need to get this out & i don’t care if u say i have bad Grammar or not soo yea i’ve have this Social phobia thing goin on since i was 11yr like it didnt get bad until i graduated from High school back in 08 & being Unemployed off & On Because of it…& right now i have a Job & Im Attendin Marry Grove collage here in Michagin for Acting….& like when i speak like i start to freeze up & cant get my Words out & i always have a Bored Expression on my Face like when im out at the Movies with some friends like a couple weeks ago we Saw Case 39 & my friend went Dude whats Wrong u just Look Bored as hell & that has me worried a bit …& i feel Akward some times in Public like i feel Lost On This Road in Life & Right Now im On Prozac & i take 20mg

Like I Cant be 21 goin thru a Mid life crisis i should be Happy & Lovin to have Girl friend

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I know this is long, but read and answer just if you can. I really needed to vent and writing has done a great job at helping me.

I’m a college student. I’m currently in the last semester of a 4 semesters Psychology Honors program. Although I have always cared about my grades and kept a GPA over 3.5 all the time, I had never been in anything like an honors program before. The honors program is very demanding; we are assigned graduate level readings every week (a lot and hard to understand). We are also required to participate and be creative thinkers, connecting the dots among all readings and applying our understanding of the readings to real world phenomena. The final project is an independent research study and paper. As we all should know, that is something that is not often experienced in American education. Usually all we have to do in regular classes is listen to a lecture and memorize some readings to then prove our “knowledge” on a written test. The problem is that although I think I have benefited a lot from the program, it has also given me a lot of extra stress. I’ve always been a quiet, shy girl in class with almost a phobia of public speaking. To make matters worse I got into an accident the very first semester I entered the program, in which I’m lucky I got out of alive and unhurt. I also went through my grandma being diagnosed with cancer, treatment, surgery, staying at the hospital, doctor appointments (all through 7 months straight). This life experiences made me very anxious and more scared to speak in class. I spoke to my teacher about my grandma, she said she understands but she didn’t really make me feel supported. She never called me out for not speaking in class, but I felt behind in that sense and I wanted to be like the other students, so I asked for her advice. At that point she started to really get on my back always calling on me and getting more impatient as I didn’t respond (I was literally terrified, automatically went BLANK whenever she spoke to me and I was really trying but couldn’t help it). She became very angry at me as time went by and got to the point of telling me stuff like “I’m not your therapist”, “not everyone is made for Harvard” and almost advising me to get out of the program (It hurt me a lot).
18 hours ago – 3 days left to answer.
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It’s not like me to quit, so I’ve persisted. I’ve done all my assignments but it’s hard for me to come out of my shell and talk. Most students in the class are very opinionated and make links between different issues, which my professor loves since she is a huge advocate of GENIUS minds. I’ve come to the point of almost not standing my teacher and I think she hates me too at this point. She usually praises students around and tells them how great they are when they come up with creative ideas, but I never do that so she ignores me most of the time. Today, after all this stress and almost at the end of my journey in this program I think to myself. I came to a kind of conclusion that just because she doesn’t like me and because she might think I’ll never be a leader for being so passive, doesn’t mean I won’t succeed in life.
18 hours ago

She is preparing people to go out and change the world, come up with the cure for cancer, reinvent the wheel…and become famous for that (she is very popular in her field around the country)…maybe I don’t care about being one of those. I do want to succeed, have a job where I can make a difference by helping the community and feeling great at the end of the day because of that. That doesn’t mean I don’t want to be a leader, I’d like to because I hate how it sounds to be “a follower” but I don’t know if being a leader is a real priority for me yet (but I would definitely like to go to an Ivy league grad school). What do you think of my situation? My teacher? Me? My final conclusion?

like speaking in front of a crowd? (I completely have it.)

And, would someone help me with these pronunciations?
Ereshkigal
Tammuz. (Tam-ooz or Tah-mooz?)

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