Speaking Effective English: Your Guide to Acquiring New Confidence in Personal and Professional Communication [Audio Cassette]

Bettye Pierce Zoller (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 1995

This audio guide helps listeners gain new confidence in personal and professional communication. It teaches them how to use their voice to create a lasting impression, speak with confidence, use words with power, realize how accents, dialects and incorrect speech habits can harm their vocal image, and learn how their voice works and how they should be using it. 2 cassettes.

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About the Author

Bettye Pierce Zoller, John Arthur Watkins, and Hugh Lampman are also the creators of the ZWL Speech Center's Talk!: The Toolkit for Talkers! and How to Get What You Want on the Telephone Everytime! They live in Dallas, Texas. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Audio Cassette
• Publisher: Voicevoices.Com (December 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1884643078
• ISBN-13: 978-1884643071
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.2 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 1.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,901,134 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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27 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars More of a Broad Overview than a Lesson, January 13, 2000

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"annie830" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Speaking Effective English!: Your Guide to Acquiring New Confidence In Personal and Professional Communication (Audio Cassette)

I bought this tape expecting the "listen and learn" method of better speech that was promised. There are only two short exercises given in the 2 tapes, the rest is general information; some of which is unecessary, such as interview tips and how to keep your vocal chords healthy. I wish they would have taken more time to give concrete help.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Just Plain AWFUL!, August 3, 2007

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J. Stoops (Pennsylvania) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Speaking Effective English!: Your Guide to Acquiring New Confidence In Personal and Professional Communication (Audio CD)

I hate to be so negative, but do not waste your time or money on this item. It delivers nothing that it promises, in fact, it doesn't even seem to have a genuine purpose at all. Several 'professional' speakers crack endless lame jokes about contemporary speech and hold a painfully stinted scripted conversation about the vital importance of speaking well, patting themselves on the back about how accomplished they all are in that area while imparting nothing in the way of instruction. In fact, I found two of the speakers miserable to listen to! The female was much too loud and excessively animated while one of the males was so nasal that you could hear the air running through the back of his sinuses as he talked, clicking epiglottis and all - things that they cautioned the listeners against doing themselves!

I couldn't finish this set, after the first CD, the speaker's voices were like nails on a chalkboard and I dropped it back off at the library the first chance I got.