Why You Should Practise Your Speech

The President's speech took place at the Lotte New York Palace Hotel in New York with an invited audience of Africa's leaders. So far so good. But, it just couldn't stay that way.

Because in his opening remarks he managed to mispronounce the name, "Namibia." So, it became "Nambia."

So what went wrong? Well, apart from mispronouncing "Namibia" on two separate occasions in the same speech, not that much. But, of course, that's not the point.

Since his failure to pronounce "Namibia" in the correct fashion inspired a whole twitter storm of mockery and jest. At his expense. At times like these, it really must be tough to be the President!

People in general, commentators and journalists all missed whatever points he wanted to make in his speech. Because everyone was fixated on "Nambia." Good fun, but not if you happened to be in the audience.

So what should you do? Well, you should rehearse. You should snatch some speech practice. And that shouldn't be unusual for the President. Because we spotted him rehearsing a speech earlier this year. Albeit, at the last minute. So he does know that he has to practise his speeches.

After the "Nambia" gaffe it's probably obvious why you should practise your speech. So, here are three good reasons why you should go ahead and practise your speech well before your next event.

So, you can see for yourself what could happen when you don't practise your speech. It can be catastrophic. Because even the President of the United States can't afford to overlook his need to practise.

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