Public Speaking Tips: How to Learn to Articulate Clearly

You have a raging passion for your subject. Or you have a strong financial motive to speak on your subject. Or maybe you simply want everybody to like you!

Whatever your Cause, people must be able to understand your speech--your physical speech--before they are able to give you the response you"re working for.

EVERY MEMBER, A COMPETENT COMMUNICATOR (CC), A COMPETENT LEADER (CL)

Everything we have achieved as a Club will be superficial if our membership
base will not be populated by Competent Communicators (CCs) and Competent
Leaders (CLs).

Do you know that one of the goals of any Toastmasters Club is to have every
member earn a CC? Look around the venue at our next Club meeting. How many
members have completed the Competent Communication manual and received their
CC award? How many are on their way to completing the new Competent
Leadership manual and receive their CL award?

More discouraging would be the fact that there might be members who have not

How to Say Hello in Different Languages

Have you ever stopped to consider how many people are saying "hello"
to each other today and in how many different languages? If you wanted
to say "hello" to everyone on the planet, you would have to learn at
least 2,796 languages and say "hello" to at least 6,000,000,000 (six
billion) people. Here are some of the ways of saying "hello" around
the world.

Instructions
Look up the language in which you would like to say, "hello". You will
find suggestions on that line. Pronounce the suggested wording.

Steps

ANSWERING TABLE TOPICS

When you are called upon to speak during the Table Topics portion:

* Keep your remarks brief and to the point.
* Don't apologize.

# Don't ramble. When you find yourself repeating a statement, wrap up
and conclude your talk.
# Listen carefully to the question.
# Try to present sensible, worthwhile ideas that add to the knowledge of others.
# You can refute or elaborate on ideas and information already
presented by others.

You'll be able to talk comfortably on virtually any subject - even
those about which you know little - if you have several mental

History Of FCT

The Flamboyant Toastmasters Club
Alex Jose R. Ginete, ATM-B
FCT Founding President

Flamboyant, is perhaps the word best describes the Filipino Club Toastmasters. The many guests and regular visitors for months and years will attest to the colorful, flashy and glitzy atmosphere, not to mention, the very family-oriented ambiance FCT radiates.

Welcome To FCT

"This is Giant step in the history of Filipino Club Toastmasters" Toastmasters is a platform were we make mistakes, rise, learn and serve. It's a process of hatching. Guests, who attend, in due course become prestigious members. Members are then nurtured by the Officers just like parents, there after when they foster their skills, propensity and expertise they choose their ways to serve the members, club and the organization as whole. Members, who dare to serve, have sky as the limit.