Category: English Language

Accepted Egypt: 75+ Learners Build English Fluency, 47% Land Jobs, 2.2× Salary Increase — Powered by Yoodli AI Tutor

May 7th, 2026
Case Study | Education & Language Learning | AI Tutor

TL;DR

Accepted Egypt, an intensive English language training program based in Cairo, partnered with Yoodli after evaluating multiple AI tools over more than a year. Yoodli was the only platform that delivered genuine two-way conversational AI, custom rubric-based scoring, and behavior-controlled AI personas, without requiring extensive prompting or technical expertise.

In 6 months: 75+ learners enrolled, 613+ hours of AI practice completed, 9.3k roleplay practices across ~260 lessons, 76% of learners improved by 20+ points on English speaking skills, and 47% graduates secured employment in Egypt’s Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) sector, with salary increases from 10,000 EGP to 22,000 EGP per month (2.2x).

Background

Accepted Egypt is an intensive English language training program that helps Arabic-speaking adults in Cairo enhance their English communication skills to qualify for higher-paying employment, particularly in Egypt’s rapidly growing BPO sector and call center industry.

The program takes learners from beginner (A1) to job-ready (B1+) proficiency within 60 to 90 days through a combination of daily instructor-led sessions and high-volume guided AI practice tasks.

Founded by Mohamed Farahat, a former Teleperformance Egypt quality analyst and recruiter, Accepted Egypt was built on a single insight: Egypt’s skilled labor market faces a structural gap. Global companies are relocating operations to Egypt driven by cost advantages (1 USD = 50 EGP), but consistently struggle to find workers with the English proficiency required for client-facing roles. Accepted Egypt bridges that gap, combining structured language instruction with AI-powered practice at scale.

Challenge

Before Yoodli, Accepted Egypt spent more than a year evaluating and using alternative AI practice platforms. Other tools missed the mark in these critical areas:

No Custom Content Upload

Most platforms come with pre-built content libraries that cannot be modified. This forced a painful choice: either adapt the institution’s curriculum to match the vendor’s content, or accept that students would practice tasks completely unrelated to what they learned in class. A student trained on describing personal memories in an Egyptian context would go home to practice tasks about topics like ‘Day of the Dead’, a culturally disconnected experience that undermined learning transfer and student motivation.

No Genuine Two-Way Conversation

The majority of tools operate on a ‘press a button, say a sentence’ model. Students repeat phrases or respond to static prompts. There is no back-and-forth, no follow-up question, no conversational pressure, no simulation of a real interaction. This is fundamentally different from what a BPO job requires, where an agent must listen, process, and respond dynamically in real time.

No AI Behavior Control

Some tools offer a form of conversational AI, but with no backend control over how the AI behaves. Building a realistic scenario required 30 to 45 minutes of detailed prompting, and even then the results were inconsistent and unpredictable.

Credit Exhaustion Kills Practice

Platforms simply stopped responding when credits ran out, mid-session, without warning. For a program that requires students to complete four practice tasks per day, five days per week, this kind of interruption is operationally unacceptable.

The Solution

After more than a year of evaluation, Yoodli was selected as the only platform that met all of Accepted Egypt’s core requirements simultaneously:

Genuine Two-Way Conversational AI English Training

Yoodli enables real-time, spoken back-and-forth dialogue. The AI does not just wait for a student to finish speaking, it engages, challenges, asks follow-up questions, and responds to what the student actually says. This mirrors the conversational demands of a real BPO role in a way no other evaluated tool could replicate.

Custom Content: Built Around Our Curriculum

Yoodli allows institutions to build practice scenarios from scratch using their own content. At Accepted Egypt, every AI practice task is built directly from the lesson taught that day: same vocabulary, same functional language, same context. Students practice exactly what they learned. This closes the gap between instruction and practice that undermined every other tool we tried.

AI Behavior That Works Without Extensive Prompting

Yoodli’s backend AI behavior system is the most significant differentiator. A prompt that would take 30 to 45 minutes to build on another platform takes 5 to 10 minutes on Yoodli, and produces better results. The AI understands context. If the scenario requires a frustrated customer who gradually calms down when handled professionally, Yoodli delivers that naturally. It does not need to be told every single thing, as long as the situation is set up correctly, the AI does the job.

Yoodli also provides a measure of prompt quality, indicating whether a prompt is likely to produce a strong, medium, or weak AI interaction. This feedback loop helped our instructors improve their content creation skills over time, without requiring any technical background in AI or prompt engineering.

Multiple Personas: Variety at Scale

Yoodli supports multiple AI personas within a single program. Students at Accepted Egypt are exposed to different conversational styles, accents, interaction patterns, and character types. From patient tutors to assertive interviewers to demanding customers. This variety prevents adaptation to a single AI voice and builds genuine conversational flexibility.

Custom Rubric-Based Scoring Across Five Dimensions

Every practice session at Accepted Egypt is scored across 5 speaking dimensions:
- Fluency: smoothness and natural flow of speech
- Grammar: accuracy of sentence structure
- Pronunciation: clarity and intelligibility
- Natural English: use of idiomatic, contextually appropriate language
- Tonality: appropriate register, warmth, and professionalism
These rubrics are custom-built for each proficiency level (A1 through B1+), and become progressively more demanding as students advance. A score of 4/5 at A2 requires a higher standard of performance at B1, ensuring students are continuously challenged, not just repeating the same level of effort.

Results of AI English Training

Across 6 months of deployment, the Yoodli-powered program at Accepted Egypt delivered measurable outcomes across four dimensions:

Beyond the quantitative results, Accepted Egypt’s experience highlights several qualitative outcomes that speak to the AI Tutor’s differentiated value:
- Competitive tool replacement: After more than a year with previous solutions and evaluations of multiple alternatives, Yoodli was the only tool that met Accepted Egypt’s requirements for two-way conversational AI, custom rubric scoring, and scalable guided practice
- Behavioral AI quality: Yoodli that the system “is smart enough so I don’t have to tell it every single thing, as long as I set up the situation, the AI does the job.” Compared to other services where prompting an angry customer persona required extensive effort and produced unrealistic extremes, Yoodli’s AI produced natural, context-appropriate responses with minimal prompting.
- User-friendly design: Teachers with no AI or prompting background can create and manage practice scenarios, lowering the barrier to scaling the program beyond Mohamed’s direct involvement.
WHAT’S NEXT

Q2 2026: Scaling to 400+ Learners

Accepted Egypt is launching a major Q2 initiative targeting 400+ learners, partnering with educational influencers across Egypt to reach new audiences. Yoodli’s AI Tutor will serve as the core practice engine for this expanded cohort. The first institutional-scale AI English training deployment of its kind in Egypt.

AI Tutor-Led Instruction

Accepted Egypt is actively testing Yoodli’s screen sharing and PowerPoint integration to explore delivering full structured lessons, not just practice tasks, through the AI Tutor. If successful, this shifts the business model from instructor-dependent delivery to AI-led tutoring at scale. This allows the program to serve significantly more learners without proportional instructor overhead.

Beyond English: Finance, Management, and Professional Skills

The architecture Accepted Egypt has built on Yoodli, custom rubrics, progressive difficulty, persona-based practice, is not limited to language learning. Future programs will use the same framework to tutor learners on finance for non-financial professionals, people management, and business communication skills. Yoodli’s AI is smart enough to operate across domains as long as the situation is set up correctly, and Accepted Egypt intends to prove that at scale.

University Partnerships

Accepted Egypt is in early discussions with Egyptian universities to integrate Yoodli into their learning cycles, bringing AI-powered speaking practice to thousands of students who currently have no access to structured conversational English training.

The Middle East Opportunity

Egypt is not an isolated case. Across the Middle East and North Africa, the same structural gap exists: a growing demand for English-proficient workers in BPO, technology, and professional services, and a workforce that lacks the conversational practice infrastructure to meet that demand. The economic incentive is significant: in Egypt alone, the difference between a non-English-proficient worker and a B1-level English speaker is a salary increase of more than 100%.

Accepted Egypt represents proof that Yoodli can operate at institutional scale in this market, with measurable outcomes, high engagement, and real employment results. The opportunity to expand this model across the region is significant, and Accepted Egypt is positioned to be Yoodli’s regional implementation partner as that expansion unfolds.

ABOUT ACCEPTED EGYPT

Accepted Egypt is an intensive English language training program based in Cairo that helps Arabic-speaking adults enhance their English proficiency within 60 to 90 days to qualify for higher-paying employment in Egypt’s growing BPO and technology sectors. The program combines daily instructor-led sessions with AI-powered guided practice to deliver rapid fluency gains at scale.

ABOUT YOODLI

Yoodli is a secure, experiential learning platform that uses AI roleplays to help individuals and teams practice real-world conversations, presentations, and professional interactions. With AI Tutor, AI Roleplays, and continuous coaching, Yoodli closes the loop between learning, practice, and real-world performance. The Seattle-based company is trusted by Fortune 100 companies, leading training providers, and educational institutions to deliver scalable, judgment-free coaching across sales, leadership, customer success, and language learning. Learn more at yoodli.ai.
The Ultimate Guide to Innuendos

July 18th, 2023
Conversations can be awkward, especially if you’re talking about a sensitive or taboo subject. That’s where innuendos come in.

Even if you haven’t used one yourself, you’ve probably heard them on TV, in film, and in books. We’ll detail everything you need to know about innuendos, including what they are, why they’re used, and how you can use them in everyday speech.

What Is an Innuendo?

An innuendo is a suggestive hint or remark made to insinuate something. The word stems from the Latin “innuere,” which roughly translates to mean nodding or beckoning to.

It was introduced in medieval legal documents and evolved to refer to any “indirect suggestions.” It wasn’t until later on that the umbrella of innuendos expanded to include more disrespectful, derogatory comments.

How to pronounce it

The word “innuendo” is pronounced like: “in-yoo-en-dow,” with “dow” rhyming with “doe.”

Innuendo vs. euphemism

There’s some confusion concerning the difference between the words “innuendo” and “euphemism,” most likely because the difference is slight. Whereas an innuendo refers to a hint about someone or something that could be seen as derogatory, a euphemism is a term used in place of a more offensive or crude word.

Innuendo vs. insinuation

The confusion between the words “innuendo” and “insinuation” is understandable. Still, these two words are essentially synonyms and are usually used synonymously.

Although there’s been some debate in the past as to whether or not the intention of these words is the same, the general consensus is that it’s safe to use them interchangeably.

Innuendo synonyms

There are a few synonyms that can help shed a little more light about this word and what it means.

Some of the most common innuendo synonyms you may hear include:
- Insinuation
- Suggestion
- Allusion
- Implication
- Hint
Types of Innuendos

Although innuendos can be extremely versatile, they usually fit into one of two categories: verbal or nonverbal.

Verbal innuendos

A verbal innuendo is just what it sounds like. This type relies on verbal communication and is pretty commonly used, especially when flirting or using sarcasm.

Examples of verbal innuendos can be things like:
- Euphemisms
- Puns
- Double entendre
Nonverbal innuendos

On the other hand, a nonverbal innuendo relies on mainly nonverbal cues only to get the message across. You can use your body language to communicate something without even opening your mouth. This can include:
- Winking
- Raising your eyebrows
- Using hand gestures
The only nonverbal innuendo that does use a sort of verbal cue could be changes in vocal tone. Even though a change in tone isn’t necessarily “verbal,” this type is very common in conversation.

However, for nonverbal innuendos, societal, cultural, or social context is needed to make sure you get the message across. That’s because some gestures can have different meanings depending on the cultural significance or interpretation. Even something as “simple” as a thumbs up (which is an affirmative sign in many countries) can be misconstrued. In West Asian countries — namely Iraq, Afghanistan, and Iran — this thumbs up sign is considered rude and offensive.

Other types of innuendos

There are also subtypes. As mentioned above, legal innuendos are one subtype. For example, these can be used to sidestep any libel or defamation accusations.

The most popular subtype is probably the “sexual innuendo.” It uses secondary descriptions or phrases to hint at sex or sexual matters. These are very common in films, especially comedies. It’s also just a less taboo way to discuss sex (which is often considered taboo for conversation) in conversation with someone.

These are often used in politics, too. Sometimes, a politician will voice their true opinions or criticisms under the veil of an innuendo so as not to be too “obvious” with the matters they support or disagree with.

What’s Their Purpose?

Innuendos can have slightly different purposes depending on what the context is. For example, in literature, authors often use this rhetorical device to entertain the audience.

In speech, they can come off as passive aggressive. Many people recognize that this device is usually used to insult or attack a person’s character. However, this isn’t inherently true and they’re used pretty often.

If your goal is to be indirect however, innuendos are perfect. Let’s take a deeper look into when we might use them, especially in conversation.

When to Use Them

Using these in speech can be very helpful. There are two main ways you might want to use innuendos in speech: to mention “sensitive” information or to be witty or humorous.

If you’re trying to convey sensitive information without making it totally obvious, they can come in handy. Sometimes, talking about something considered “sensitive” information can make people uncomfortable. To avoid this, innuendos can provide a discretionary cover.

On the other hand, this type of rhetorical device can give you an air of wit and humor. Context is especially important here given that the listener needs to be clued into that context conversation to understand said wit and humor.

For this type, there’s more often than not some type of juxtaposition of two concepts. Here’s some quick examples:
- Using “air quotes” to insinuate something
- Leveraging euphemisms or phrases to suggest something
- Referencing a particular situation with “inside jokes”
How to practice using innuendos

If you’d like to practice using innuendos so as to more confidently use them in everyday speech, taking advantage of an AI speech coach can be a great option. If you happen to be learning English as a second language, this is an especially helpful way to practice.

When you’re in the middle of a conversation, it can be difficult to use one correctly the first time, especially if you haven’t used them before. If that sounds like you, you can use AI speech coach Yoodli to practice.

You can upload an existing video or record yourself practicing innuendos in impromptu speech to get instant analytics and a transcript of what was said.

You can practice implementing purposeful innuendos with Yoodli.

This way, you can review exactly what you said, how you said it, and identify the context around the innuendo to ensure it was used appropriately.

Although it might seem like a moot point, practicing speaking out loud and using innuendos can help improve your confidence and accuracy in using these words and phrases.

Innuendo Examples

In general, innuendos are common. To better understand the wide-ranging variety and uses for this rhetorical device, check out these examples in film and television and literature.

Innuendos in film and television

In film and television, most innuendos are sexual in nature. The 2000s film “Shrek” is chock-full of them.

Not all of the examples in film and television are on purpose, though. Some are actually accidental. In the film “Captain America,” the characters mention fondue and protagonist Steve Rogers assumes the other two characters are talking about an intimate relationship instead of fondue.

Howard Stark, one of the characters in the conversation, replies: “Fondue is just cheese and bread, my friend.”

You can check out the film clip below.

Protagonist Steve Rogers picks up an accidental innuendo during his conversation.

Innuendos in literature

Various types of literature rely on these too, and you can find them in everything from screenplays to novels to poetry. Shakespeare, for one, is famous for purposely including raunchy innuendos.

However, there are also accidental innuendos in literature. Take “Jane Eyre,” for example. Because it was written in the mid-1800s, some of the language can seem suggestive even though it’s not.

One such example is the excerpt:

“The clock struck eight strokes. It aroused him; he uncrossed his legs, sat erect, turned to me.”

Of course, there’s nothing sexual about the sitting up, uncrossing your legs, and turning to speak to someone. However, it exists as an accidental suggestion nonetheless.

The Bottom Line

Innuendos can be a very helpful tool for everyday conversation, especially if you broach topics that might be sensitive or disrespectful. It’s a handy way to talk about a subject that could be uncomfortable in a lighthearted, indirect way.

To most successfully use innuendos in speech, try practicing a few. You can even take advantage of an in-depth analysis from Yoodli to best improve how and when you use them.
What Is an Accent Coach and What Do They Do?

June 15th, 2023
Effective communication is a vital skill in today’s interconnected world. Whether you’re delivering presentations, engaging in conversations, or participating in interviews, clear and confident communication can significantly impact your success. In this comprehensive guide, we will delve into the world of accent coaching and explore the broader aspects of communication enhancement. Additionally, we will introduce Yoodli, an AI speech and communication coach that, while not specifically an accent coach, offers a range of tools and features to help individuals improve their overall speaking abilities.

Understanding the Role of an Accent Coach

What Does an Accent Coach Do?

An accent coach specializes in helping individuals modify or reduce their accent, allowing them to communicate more clearly and effectively in a specific language. Accent coaches work with clients to refine pronunciation, intonation, and speech patterns, enabling them to be better understood by others. Similarly, dialect coaches specialize in helping individuals master specific regional speech patterns, providing distinct yet complementary expertise in the realm of speech and communication coaching.

The Benefits

Engaging in accent coaching can bring numerous benefits, including:
- Improved Clarity: These coaches assist individuals in enunciating words more clearly, making it easier for others to understand their speech.
- Enhanced Confidence: By gaining control over their accent, individuals can boost their confidence when speaking in professional and social settings.
- Enhanced Job Prospects: Clear and articulate communication can open up new opportunities and enhance career prospects, especially in roles that require extensive verbal interaction.
Yoodli: Your AI Speech and Communication Coach

While Yoodli is not specifically an accent coach, it offers a wide array of features and tools to help individuals enhance their overall communication and speaking skills. Let’s explore how Yoodli can assist you on your journey to becoming a more confident and effective communicator.

1. Fun Online Speech Practice Games

Yoodli provides entertaining and educational online games that help you improve various aspects of public speaking. One example is “Spin a Yarn.” This game allows participants to tap into their creativity and storytelling abilities. Players are given unexpected words or phrases to incorporate into a story as they answer intriguing questions like, “What’s the first thing you would say to an alien from Mars?” By playing this game, you can enhance your ability to think on your feet, improve spontaneity, and develop the skill of seamlessly incorporating new elements into your speeches or conversations.

2. Mock Interview Feature

See Yoodli’s AI-generated unique follow-up questions in action.

Yoodli’s mock interview feature simulates real-life interview scenarios, providing a low-stress environment to practice your communication skills. As you respond to interview questions, Yoodli analyzes your answers and provides follow-up questions in real-time based on what you say. This feature helps you refine your responses, improve your articulation, and develop the ability to think quickly and coherently under pressure.

3. Personalized Feedback and Analysis

Yoodli offers personalized feedback and analysis on various aspects of your communication skills. From evaluating your pacing and tone to providing insights on body language and eye contact, Yoodli helps you identify areas for improvement and provides actionable suggestions to enhance your overall delivery.

4. Pronunciation and Language Support

While Yoodli is not specifically an accent coach, its advanced speech recognition technology can assist with pronunciation improvement. By providing feedback and suggestions on pronunciation, Yoodli helps you develop clearer and more precise speech patterns.

The Power of Effective Communication (Beyond Accents)

Effective communication is a fundamental skill that extends beyond accent modification. While accent coaching plays a crucial role in improving clarity and intelligibility, it is essential to recognize the broader aspects of effective communication. Clear articulation, confident delivery, active listening, and non-verbal cues all contribute to successful communication.

By developing effective communication skills, you can connect with others, convey your ideas with impact, and foster understanding and collaboration. Effective communication opens doors to professional opportunities, strengthens relationships, and promotes personal growth.

While accent coaching addresses a specific aspect of communication, it is equally important to focus on overall communication enhancement. Through practice, self-reflection, and utilizing tools like Yoodli, you can refine your communication skills holistically, ensuring that you convey your message effectively regardless of accent.

Remember, effective communication is a lifelong journey of continuous learning and improvement. Embrace the opportunities to enhance your communication skills, both in accent modification and in the broader realm of effective communication. By doing so, you can become a more confident and impactful communicator in any language or setting.

Working with an accent coach is only one of many ways to improve your communication skills.

Conclusion

While accent coaching focuses specifically on modifying or reducing accents, effective communication encompasses a broader range of skills. Yoodli, an AI speech and communication coach, offers a host of features to help individuals become more confident and effective communicators. Through its fun online public speaking games and its mock interview practice feature, Yoodli provides a low-stress environment for speaking skill improvement. By utilizing Yoodli’s tools and features, you can enhance your speaking abilities, boost your confidence, and become a more effective communicator in various professional and social contexts. Remember, effective communication is a journey, and with the right tools and practice, you can unlock your full potential as a communicator.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) – Accent Coaching

1. What is accent coaching?

Accent coaching is a specialized form of instruction that focuses on helping individuals modify or reduce their accents to improve their clarity and communication in a specific language.

2. What are the benefits of working with an accent coach?

Engaging in accent coaching can bring several benefits, such as:
- Improved Clarity: It helps individuals enunciate words more clearly, making it easier for others to understand their speech.
- Increased Confidence: By gaining control over their accent, individuals can boost their confidence when speaking in professional and social settings.
- Enhanced Comprehension: Modifying accents can improve comprehension and minimize miscommunication between speakers of different language backgrounds.
3. Can coaching completely eliminate an accent?

While it can significantly reduce or modify a person’s accent, it is important to note that completely eliminating an accent may not always be the goal. The aim is to enhance clarity and intelligibility while maintaining the speaker’s unique identity and linguistic heritage.

4. How long does it take to see improvement through accent coaching?

The time it takes to see improvement through accent coaching varies depending on factors such as the individual’s language background, level of commitment, and practice. Consistent practice and active engagement in accent modification techniques are essential for progress. You can speed up the process of improving your communication skills and confidence by working with a free online AI speech coach like Yoodli.

5. Can accent coaching help with non-native language fluency?

Yes, accent coaching can help individuals improve their fluency in non-native languages. By working with a qualified instructor, individuals can refine their pronunciation, intonation, and rhythm, leading to enhanced overall language proficiency. Click here to find five actionable tips to speak better English.

6. How do I find a reputable accent coach?

Finding a reputable accent coach involves conducting research, seeking referrals, and considering factors such as an individual’s professional qualifications, experience, and specialization. Online platforms and language institutes often provide directories or recommendations for qualified instructors. Click here for our curated coach directory to find a reputable accent or speech coach near you!

7. Is accent coaching only for individuals learning English as a second language?

No, accent coaching is beneficial for individuals learning any language as a second language. While speaking English is a common focus, accent modification techniques can be applied to any language to improve clarity and intelligibility.

8. Can children benefit from accent coaching?

Yes, children can benefit from accent coaching if they are learning a second language or have difficulty with speech clarity. Working with an experienced instructor can help children develop clearer pronunciation and communication skills.

9. Is accent coaching suitable for individuals with speech disorders?

Accent coaching primarily focuses on modifying one’s pronunciations rather than treating speech disorders. Individuals with speech disorders should consult a speech-language pathologist or a specialist in speech therapy for appropriate guidance and support.

10. Can I practice accent modification techniques on my own?

While self-practice can be helpful, working with an accent coach provides personalized guidance and targeted feedback tailored to your specific needs. A coach can provide valuable insights, exercises, and techniques that can accelerate progress and ensure effective accent modification.
5 Actionable Tips to Speak Better English

June 7th, 2023
Mastering the English language opens doors to countless opportunities for communication, personal growth, and professional success. If you’re looking to improve your English speaking skills, you’re in the right place! In this comprehensive guide, we will explore five actionable tips to help you speak better English with confidence and fluency. These include:
- Tip #1: Embrace immersive learning
- Tip #2: Practice speaking regularly
- Tip #3: Expand your vocabulary
- Tip #4: Seek feedback
- Tip #5: Work with Yoodli, an AI communication coach
From embracing immersive learning techniques to practicing in a supportive environment, these tips will make your English language journey enjoyable and effective. Let’s dive in!

1. Embrace Immersive Learning

Immerse yourself in the English language to accelerate your progress. Here are a few fun and engaging ways to incorporate immersion into your daily life:
- Watch English movies and TV shows: Immerse yourself in the language by watching English movies and TV shows. Pay attention to pronunciation, intonation, and vocabulary usage. You can even use subtitles to aid comprehension.
- Listen to English music and podcasts: Tune in to English music and podcasts to improve your listening skills. Focus on the lyrics or follow along with the podcast hosts. This will help you familiarize yourself with different accents and improve your understanding of spoken English.
- Read English books and articles: Expand your vocabulary and improve your reading comprehension by diving into English literature. Start with books or articles that match your current level, and gradually challenge yourself with more complex texts.
Check out this article for a how-to guide to speaking English eloquently.

2. Practice Speaking English Regularly

Regular practice is essential for improving your spoken English. Here are a few tips to make speaking a regular part of your routine:
- Find conversation partners: Look for language exchange programs or online platforms where you can connect with native English speakers or fellow language learners. Engaging in conversations will boost your confidence and provide valuable opportunities to practice your speaking skills.
- Record yourself speaking: Use your smartphone or a recording device to capture your voice while speaking English. This allows you to listen to your pronunciation, identify areas for improvement, and track your progress over time.
- Speak in front of a mirror: Stand in front of a mirror and practice speaking English. This helps you observe your facial expressions, body language, and mouth movements. It also gives you a chance to build confidence in your delivery.
3. Expand Your Vocabulary

Building a robust vocabulary is crucial for effective communication, and it’s our third tip for speaking English more fluently and confidently. Here’s how you can expand your English vocabulary:
- Learn new words every day: Set aside time each day to learn new words. You can use vocabulary apps, flashcards, or online resources to discover new words and their meanings. Try to use these words in sentences to reinforce your understanding and retention.
- Read extensively: Reading exposes you to a wide range of vocabulary. Make it a habit to read English books, newspapers, or online articles regularly. Highlight unfamiliar words and look up their definitions. Contextual understanding will help you remember new words more effectively.
4. Seek Feedback and Correction

Feedback and correction are an invaluable tip for improving your English speaking skills. Consider these strategies to receive feedback:

Join a group activity to practice speaking English in a fun environment.
- Language exchange partners: Communicate with language exchange partners and ask them to correct your mistakes. Be open to constructive criticism and actively work on identifying errors.
- Join conversation groups or clubs: Participate in conversation groups or clubs, such as sports teams or performance groups, where you can practice speaking English. Native speakers or experienced language learners can provide guidance and correct any linguistic errors you may make.
5. Utilize Yoodli: Your AI Speaking Coach

English speaking apps are a great resource for improving both your fluency and your confidence. Yoodli, an AI public speaking coach, offers a supportive environment for practicing English speaking skills. With Yoodli, you can do all of the following:
- Practice in a low-stress environment: Yoodli creates a non-judgmental space for you to practice speaking English. You can experiment with different phrases, work on pronunciation, and gain confidence without fear of making mistakes.
- Receive instant feedback: Yoodli’s advanced AI algorithms analyze your speech and provide instant feedback on areas such as delivery, pauses, pacing, and filler words. This feedback helps you identify areas for improvement and refine your English speaking skills.
- Engage in mock conversations: Yoodli, with its interview preparation feature, generates simulated conversations where you can engage in dialogues and practice your overall speaking skills. This interactive feature allows you to build confidence thinking quickly as well as develop your conversational abilities.
Utilize Yoodli’s AI-generated follow up questions to practice speaking English.

Embrace Yoodli as your AI speaking coach, and enjoy the benefits of practicing English in a both supportive and interactive platform.

5 Tips for Speaking Better English: In Conclusion

Improving your English speaking skills is an exciting journey that requires both consistent effort and practice. By embracing immersive learning techniques, practicing regularly, expanding your vocabulary, seeking feedback, as well as utilizing tools like Yoodli, you can become a confident and fluent English speaker. Remember, each step you take brings you closer to eventually achieving your language goals. So, let’s embark on this journey together and unlock the doors to effective English communication.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

Q1: How long will it take to speak better English?

A: The time required to improve your English speaking skills varies for each individual. It depends on factors such as your current proficiency level, the amount of practice you put in, and your dedication to learning. Consistent practice and exposure to the language will expedite your progress.

Q2: How can I overcome my fear of speaking English in front of others?

A: It’s common to feel nervous or self-conscious when speaking English, especially in front of others. Remember that making mistakes is a natural part of the learning process. Practice regularly, seek supportive environments like language exchange programs or conversation clubs, and gradually expose yourself to speaking in front of others. The more you practice, the more confident you will become.

Q3: Are there any specific strategies to improve my pronunciation?

A: Yes, there are strategies you can employ to enhance your pronunciation. Practice speaking aloud, listen to native speakers, and pay attention to their pronunciation. You can also use pronunciation resources, such as online videos or apps, to practice individual sounds or challenging words. Additionally, utilizing Yoodli’s feedback feature can help you refine your pronunciation.

Q4: How can I stay motivated throughout the process of learning English?

A: Motivation plays a crucial role in language learning. Set clear goals for yourself and track your progress to stay motivated. Surround yourself with English language materials, connect with other English learners, and celebrate small achievements along the way. Remember to enjoy the process and appreciate the progress you make, no matter how small.

Q5: How can Yoodli help me practice speaking English?

A: Yoodli, your AI speaking coach, provides a safe and supportive environment for practicing English speaking skills. It offers features such as simulated conversations, instant feedback, and the ability to practice in a low-stress environment. Yoodli’s AI technology helps you improve your pronunciation, fluency, and overall speaking proficiency.
Double Negatives: What to Know (+ Examples)

May 22nd, 2023
Sometime in school, you might’ve learned that double negatives are examples of incorrect grammar. However, just because they’re often considered grammatically incorrect doesn’t make them useless. In fact, they can be pretty common.

In our ultimate guide on double negatives, learn what they are, how to recognize them, examples, and whether or not it’s OK to use them.

What Is a Double Negative?

A double negative refers to two negative words in a sentence. When you use a double negative, you actually end up expressing the opposite meaning of what you intended.

This can happen in nearly any language, but it’s pretty common in American and British English (as well as other dialects).

For example, double negatives are used often in dialects like African American Vernacular English (AAVE) or Southern American English. So, just because they’re not “grammatically correct” according to American English standards, that doesn’t change the fact that they’re commonly used and useful.

In other languages though, they aren’t always considered incorrect. Take Spanish, for example. If you’re saying “there isn’t a problem,” and you say, “No hay ningún problema,” that’s a double negative (e.i., no hay ningún problema). But in this case, that’s completely correct and a normal thing to say.

Even though in English, double negatives are considered “bad grammar,” lots of people still use them, unintentionally and intentionally.

What’s a negative word?

A negative word isn’t very complex. It’s a word that conveys a disagreement or a rejection of a concept. So, for example, when you’re trying to express opposition to something, you really only need one negative word, not two.

Negative participles

There are lots of negative participles. Common negative participles including words like:
- Neither
- None
- Nowhere
- Not
- Nothing
- Nobody
- Never
- No
Negative verbs

On the other hand, there are also lots of negative verbs to be aware of so you can recognize them. That includes words like:
- Could not (couldn’t)
- Would not (wouldn’t)
- Do not (don’t)
- Is not (isn’t)
- Cannot (can’t)
- Should not (shouldn’t)
- Was not
- Does not (doesn’t)
Is it OK to use a double negative?

Although it’s not necessarily a crime to use a double negative, it’s considered incorrect grammar. However, there are a few exceptions considered fair play when you’re speaking.

For example, if the negative adjective is preceded by the word “not.” You’ve probably heard someone use the phrase, “it’s not uncommon to…” or “it’s not unusual for…” and in both instances, they’re generally acceptable.

Another exception would be when the speaker is trying to emphasize the positive part. If someone were to say, “You can’t not go to prom,” they’re emphasizing how important it is to go to prom.

Double Negative Examples

There are tons of examples of double negatives. Being able to identify these examples in everyday speech can help you avoid them in the future.

One common example is a sentence like, “I haven’t seen nobody.” If you think about the meaning conveyed, that you have not seen nobody, then that must mean you have seen somebody. So to combat this, it would be better to say something like, “I haven’t seen anyone.” That way you only have one negative instead of two: “have not.”

Here’s another example. In movies, sometimes the protagonist who doubts they’re in love will say something like, “Well, she’s not unattractive” — a roundabout way of saying the woman in question is attractive since the double negatives cancel each other out.

Just to solidify the concept, see if you can recognize why all of these are double negatives:
- She didn’t see nothing.
- I’m not going nowhere.
- He don’t have no money.
- Mom couldn’t find it nowhere.
- Sakura wouldn’t punch nobody.
- MK didn’t have neither the pizza place’s number nor its brick-and-mortar address.
Double negatives in music

In the music industry, using double negatives is pretty common. For example, you might be familiar with the 1971 hit from Bill Withers, “Ain’t No Sunshine.”

Other songs that employ the double negative include songs like:
- “Ain’t No Rest for the Wicked” by Cage the Elephant
- “Never Wanted Nothing More” by Kenny Chesney
- “Ain’t No Other Man” by Christina Aguilera
- “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” by the Rolling Stones
- “Ain’t No Way” by Aretha Franklin
Double negatives in film

It’s a popular trope in television to use double negatives — even multiple instances in the same line — for comedic effect.

Perhaps one of the best examples of this concept in film is in the movie, “Shrek the Third.” When the character Prince Charming presses Pinnochio, asking if he knows where Shrek is, Pinnochio responds in a series of double negatives. “It wouldn’t be inaccurate to assume that I couldn’t exactly not say that it is or isn’t almost partially incorrect,” he tells Prince Charming during their conversation.

In this scene, they’re used both as a plot device (since Pinnochio is trying to purposely trick Prince Charming) and as a comedy bit. You can check out the referenced scene below:

The line Pinnochio delivers in this “Shrek the Third” scene is chock full of double negatives.

Either way, once you start learning about double negatives, you’ll start seeing them everywhere.

How to Avoid Double Negatives

The key to avoiding double negatives is first being able to recognize them. Once you have that down, you can practice not using them.

For example, you can use a free speech coach like Yoodli to practice speaking and catch those double negatives, especially if you’ve made a habit out of using them. Yoodli automatically analyzes your speech to provide you with metrics like your speaking pace, your body language, and even the content of what you’re saying.

You can also identify double negatives easily in your speech since Yooldi provides a full transcript of what you said.

For example, if your speech sounds too monotonic, Yoodli might give you suggestions through coaching comments on how to mitigate that. Or, if you tend to talk too fast, Yoodli might recommend taking natural pauses to slow down.

Either way, practicing identifying double negatives will be the first, most critical step for eliminating these from your vernacular.

Why Is It Important to Avoid Double Negatives?

Avoiding double negatives is important because it can convey the opposite meaning of what you intended to say.

Plus, there’s a negative connotation to using double negatives. In English-speaking countries, people tend to judge others using double negatives as uneducated and illiterate. Considering a little English speaking practice can make a world of difference.

Still, if someone’s using a certain dialect like AAVE for example, using double negatives is completely normal to convey a message.

The Key Takeaway

A double negative isn’t the worst mistake, but this grammar fluke can distort the meaning of your sentence and confuse others, depending on the situation.

By practicing through an AI coach like Yoodli — or by working on improving your comfort level with English, if you’re a non-native English speaker looking to improve — you can dispel the habit of using double negatives from your daily speech. It can take some time to break a habit though, so be patient with yourself.
From Boring to Brilliant: Transforming Your Presentation Openings

April 19th, 2023
Have you noticed that most people start their presentation with, “Hello,” “Good Morning,” “Thank you for being here.” etc.? Followed by, “I want to tell you.” “ I am here today to…” or “Bare with me as I figure out my (insert tech issue here).”

Yes, these are polite salutations that, perhaps, seem appropriate for the situation, maybe? But is this really the best way to get the attention of your audience? Do these salutations draw them into your presentation at the beginning? Do the disclaimers really help your message?

Transform Your Presentation Message

Imagine if you went to a Broadway show and the show started with the actors getting into place, looking out at the audience and saying, “Hello, we’re going to perform for you now.” Or “We are here to tell you a story about a lion named Simba, thanks for being here, and please bare with us as there is a lot of puppetry in this show.” Where this might be a choice, it does not draw us in right away and it sounds apologetic.

In fact, the redundancy of using common salutations makes it more difficult for us to differentiate your presentation’s message from the masses. And when you are apologetic in the name of transparency, your audience will now have a more difficult time trusting you. Look, your audience is making a decision within three seconds as to whether or not your presentation will be a snooze fest, so ya better make those three seconds count.

Capture Your Presentation’s Audience

I did this funny little presentation demo several years back for an AV company in Colorado that does major events. The objective was to highlight my services as a value add for their clients. Wanting to be creative with my approach, I decided to give a simple presentation on how to properly eat a hamburger. I had five slides, music and, of course, a hamburger.

Instead of using words at the beginning of my presentation, I had someone deliver a big juicy hamburger on a silver tray. As the music was swelling in the background, I proudly took a big huge bite of the burger, chewed with a smile, took a sip of water, placed the rest of the burger back on the silver tray and proceeded with, “No mess! Why? Because I know how to eat a burger properly and pretty soon, so will you!” It got a laugh, people were drawn in and I had fun! Let’s repeat back that last part, yes? “I had fun!” I get that sometimes our material is not “fun”, but I still invite you to try.

Looking Ahead

Now that I just gave you an example of one way to start a presentation where I confidently continued without dental floss at the ready, I now invite you, to think about the last presentation you gave or one you may have on the horizon.

Take a moment to brainstorm several different ways you could have or can start your presentation. Here are a few prompts to think about in your brainstorm to help you get started:
- Can you start with a story?
- Can you use a prop?
- Is there an image you can show?
- Can you ask an open-ended question?
- Can you use a joke or use humor?
Remember to get all of your ideas out on paper or on your audio device with no judgment. This is a brainstorming phase and by judging too quickly, you may prevent yourself from discovering your best idea! Have fun with it!

Bonus: you can try this exercise for your ending as well.

If you or your team want to be more confident and credible speakers, please find time on my calendar here for a 30 minute complimentary consultation.

About

Meridith Grundei is a public speaking and presentation skills coach and owner of Grundei Coaching, LLC. She has a creative and practical approach to your professional development as a speaker and educator.

Grundei works with established entrepreneurs looking to expand their brand and outreach with leaders in tech and healthcare. She is a proud Yoodli Advisor, certified Virtual Presenter, a channel partner and producer for SPEAK Events, and a Presentation Specialist for The Workplace Wellness Collective.
TED Talk: “The Incredible Inventions of Intuitive AI” Speech Summary, Text, & Analysis

March 15th, 2023
The use of artificial intelligence or AI has become more integrated into daily life. In “The Incredible Inventions of Intuitive AI”, Maurice Conti discusses the extensions of this application as an active tool. If you are looking for a speech summary, text, and analysis of this TED Talk, we have provided one for you.

TED Talk: “The Incredible Inventions of Intuitive AI” Speech Summary

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- Speech discusses how much will change in the next 20 years in terms of how humans work, signifying a new era: the Augmented Age.
- The Augmented Age is based around cognitive augmentation and robots and AI working together with humans.
- Computers can no longer just do what humans tell them – they are now generative and able to come up with their own solutions.
- Examples given of how humans, computers and robots are working together to solve highly complex design problems.
- Technology will help humans not only to imagine and design, but also to make and control things in the physical world.
- A digital nervous system connecting us to the things that are made is necessary to learn from the real world experiences of these things.
- Describes a vision of the future in which things are farmed, not fabricated; connected, not isolated; aggregated, not extracted; and autonomous, not obedient.
TED Talk: “The Incredible Inventions of Intuitive AI” Speech Text

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How many of you are creatives, designers, engineers, entrepreneurs, artists, or maybe you just have a really big imagination. Show of hands. Hey, that’s most of you. I have some news for us creatives over the course of the next 20 years more will change around the way we do our work than has happened in the last 2000. In fact, I think we’re at the dawn of a new age in human history. Now there have been four major historical errors defined by the way we work.

The hunter-gatherer age lasted several million years, and then the agricultural age lasted several thousand years. The industrial age lasted a couple of centuries, and now the information age has lasted just a few decades. And now today we’re on the cusp of our next great era as a species. Welcome to the augmented age. In this new era, your natural human capabilities are gonna be augmented by computational systems that help you think robotic systems that help you make and digital nervous system that connects you to the world far beyond your natural senses. Let’s start with cognitive augmentation. How many of you are augmented cyborgs? ?

I would actually argue that we’re already augmented. Imagine you’re at a party and somebody asks you a question that you don’t know the answer to. If you have one of these in a few seconds, you can know the answer, but this is just a primitive beginning. Even Siri is just a passive tool.

In fact, for the last three and a half million years, the tools that we’ve had have been completely passive. They do exactly what we tell them and nothing more. Our very first tool only cut where we struck it, the chisel only carves where the artist points it. And even our most advanced tools do nothing without our explicit direction. In fact, to date, and this is something that frustrates me, we’ve always been limited by this need to manually push our wills into our tools like manual, like literally using our hands even with computers.

But I’m more like Scotty and Star Trek . I wanna have a conversation with a computer. All right, I wanna say computer. Let’s design a car. And the computer shows me a car and I say, no more fast looking and less German. And bang, the computer shows me an option, . Now that conversation might be a little ways off.

It’s actually probably less than many of us think, but right now, uh, we’re working on it. Tools are making this leap from being passive to being generative. Generative design tools use a computer and algorithms to synthesize geometry, to come up with new designs all by themselves. All it needs are your goals and your constraints. I’ll give you an example. In the case of this aerial drone chassis, all you would need to do is tell it something like it has four propellers.

You want it to be as lightweight as possible and you need it to be aerodynamically efficient. And then what the computer does is it explores the entire solution space. Every single possibility that solves and meets your criteria. Millions of them takes big computers to do this, but it comes back to us with designs that we by ourselves never could have imagined. And the computer is coming up with this stuff all by itself. No one ever drew anything and it started completely from scratch. And by the way, it’s no accident that the drone body looks just like the pelvis of a flying squirrel .

It’s cuz the algorithms are designed to work the same way that evolution does. Now what’s exciting is we’re starting to see this technology out in the real world. We’ve been working with Airbus for a couple of years on this concept plane for the future. Now it’s a ways out still, but just recently we used a generative design AI to come up with this. This is a 3D printed cabin partition that’s been designed by a computer. It’s stronger than the original, yet half the weight, and it’ll be flying in the Airbus a three 20 later this year.

So computers can now generate, they can come up with their own solutions to our well-defined problems, but they’re not intuitive. They still have to start from scratch every single time. And that’s because they never learn. Unlike Maggie, Maggie’s actually smarter than our most advanced design tools.

What do I mean by that? If her owner picks up that leash, Maggie knows with a fair degree of certainty that it’s time to go for a walk. And how did she learn? Well, every time the owner picked up the leash, they went for a walk and Maggie did three things. She had to pay attention, she had to remember what happened, and she had to retain and create a pattern in her mind. Interestingly, that’s exactly what computer scientists have been trying to get ais to do for the last 60 or so years.

Back in 1952, they built this computer, they could play tic-tac-toe. Big deal. Then 45 years later, 1997, deep blue beats Casper off at chess in 2011, Watson beats these two humans at jeopardy, which is much harder for a computer to play than chess is. In fact, rather than working from predefined recipes, Watson had to use reasoning to overcome his human opponents. And then what?

A couple of weeks ago, deep minds alpha go beats the world’s best human at go, which is the most difficult game that we have. In fact, in go there are more possible moves than there are Adams in the universe. So in order to win, what AlphaGo had to do was develop intuition. And in fact, at some points, AlphaGo’s programmers didn’t understand why AlphaGo was doing what it was doing. And things are moving really fast. I mean, consider in the space of a human lifetime, computers have gone from a child’s game to what’s recognized as a pinnacle of strategic thought. What’s basically happening is computers are going from being like Spock to being a lot more like Kirk , right? From pure logic to intuition.

Would you cross this bridge? Most of you’re saying, oh hell no, . And you arrived at that decision in a split second. You just sort of knew that that bridge was unsafe. And that’s exactly the kind of intuition that our deep learning systems are starting to develop right now. Very soon you’ll literally be able to show something that you’ve made, you’ve designed to a computer and it’ll look at it and say, Hmm, sorry homie, that’ll never work. You have to try again. Or you could ask it if people are gonna like your next song or your next flavor of ice cream.

Or much more importantly, you could work with a computer to solve a problem that we’ve never faced before. For instance, climate change. We’re not doing a very good job on our own. We could certainly use all the help we can get. That’s what I’m talking about, technology amplifying our cognitive abilities so we can imagine and design things that we were simply out of our reach as plain old Una augmented humans.

So what about making all of this crazy new stuff that we’re gonna, uh, invent and, and design? I think the era of human augmentation is just as much about the physical world as it is about the virtual intellectual realm. So how will technology augment us in the physical world? Robotic systems? Okay.

There’s certainly a fear that robots are gonna take jobs away from humans, and that is true in certain sectors, but I’m much more interested in this idea that humans and robots working together are going to augment each other and start to inhabit a new space. This is our applied research lab in San Francisco. Were one of our areas of focus is advanced robotics, specifically human robot collaboration. And this is bishop one of our robots.

And as an experiment, we set it up to help a person working in construction, doing repetitive tasks, tasks like cutting out holes for outlets or light switches in drywall . So bishop’s human partner can tell him what to do in plain English in the simple gestures, kind of like talking to a dog. And then bishop executes on those instructions with perfect precision. We’re using the human for what the human is good at, right? Awareness, perception, and decision making and reusing the robot for what it’s good at. Precision and repetitiveness.

Here’s another cool project that Bishop worked on. The goal of this project, which we called the Hive, was to prototype the experience of humans, computers, and robots all working together to solve a highly complex design problem. The humans acted as labor, they cruised around the construction site, they manipulated the bamboo, which by the way, because it’s a non isomorphic material, is super hard for robots to deal with. But then the robots did this fiber winding, which was almost impossible for a human to do. And then we had an AI that was controlling, um, everything. It was telling the humans what to do. It was telling the robots what to do and keeping track of thousands of individual components. What’s interesting is building this pavilion was simply not possible without human robot and AI augmenting each other. Okay, I’ll share one more project.

This one’s a little bit crazy. We’re working with Amsterdam based artists, yours, Larman and his team at MX 3D to Generatively design and robotically print, the world’s first autonomously manufactured bridge. So Joris and an AI are designing this thing right now as we speak in Amsterdam. And when they’re done, we’re gonna hit go and robots will start 3D printing in stainless steel and then they’re gonna keep printing without human intervention until the bridge is finished.

So as computers are gonna augment our ability to imagine and design new stuff, robotic systems are gonna help us build and make things that we’ve never been able to make before. But what about our ability to sense and control these things? What about a nervous system for the things that we make? Our nervous system, the human nervous system tells us everything that’s going on around us, but the nervous system of the things we make is rudimentary at best. Uh, for instance, a car doesn’t tell the city’s public works department that it just hit a pothole at the corner of Broadway in Morrison, a building doesn’t tell its designers whether or not the people inside like being there.

And the toy manufacturer doesn’t know if a toy is actually being played with how and where and whether or not it’s any fun. Look, I’m sure that the designers imagined this lifestyle for Barbie when they designed her, right? But what if it turns out that Barbie’s actually really lonely . If the designers had known what was really happening in the real world with their designs, the road, the building and Barbie, they could have used that knowledge to create an experience that was better for the user. Now, what’s missing is a nervous system connecting us to all of the things that we design, make and use.

What if all of you had that kind of information flowing to you from the things you create in the real world? With all of the stuff we make, we spent a tremendous amount of money and energy, in fact, last year about, uh, 2 trillion convincing people to buy the things that we’ve made. But if you have this connection to the things that you design and create after they’re out in the real world, after they’ve been sold or launched or whatever, we could actually change that and go from making people want our stuff to just making stuff that people want in the first place. The good news is we’re working on digital nervous systems that connect us to the things we design.

Uh, we’re working on one project with a couple of guys down in, um, Los Angeles called the Bandido Brothers and their team. And one of the things these guys do is build insane cars that do absolutely insane things. These guys are crazy in the best way. And uh, what we’re doing with them is, uh, taking a traditional race car chassis and giving it a nervous system.

So we instrumented it with dozens of sensors and then we put a world class driver behind the wheel, took it out to the desert and drove the hell out of it for a week. And the car’s nervous system captured everything that was happening to the car. We captured 4 billion data points, all of the forces that it was subjected to, and then we did something crazy. We took all of that data and plugged it into a generative design AI that we call treat and capture. So what do you get when you give a design tool, a nervous system, and you ask it to build you the ultimate car chassis? You get this, this is something that a human could never have designed except a human did design this, but it was a human that was augmented by a generative design, ai, a digital nervous system and robots that can actually fabricate something like this. So if this is the future, the augmented age, and we’re gonna be augmented cognitively, physically and perceptually, what will that look like?

What are this wonderland gonna be like? I think we’re gonna see a world where we’re removing from things that are fabricated to things that are farmed. We’re removing from things that are constructed to that which is grown. We’re gonna move from being isolated to being connected, and we’ll move away from extraction to embrace aggregation.

I also think we’ll shift from craving obedience from our things to valuing autonomy. Thanks to our augmented capabilities, our world is gonna change dramatically. We’re gonna have a world with more variety, more connectedness, more dynamism, more complexity, more adaptability, and of course more beauty. The shape of things to come will be unlike anything we’ve ever seen before. Why? Because what we’ll be shaping those things is this new partnership between technology, nature, and humanity. That to me, is a future well worth looking forward to. Thank you all so much.

TED Talk: “The Incredible Inventions of Intuitive AI” Speech Analysis

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Word Choice

In the Word Choice category, Maurice Conti’s top keywords included “things” and “human”, followed by “design” and “computer”.

Despite the strong use of keywords, Conti had 55 weak words, including the use of “so” 13 times. In addition to the detection of filler words, Yoodli also provided suggestions of language usage. The AI speech platform suggested the alternatives of “guys” with “folks” as well as replacing “crazy” and”insane” with “confusing”.

Delivery

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TED Talk: “5 Ways to Listen Better” Speech Summary, Text, & Analysis

March 15th, 2023
If you are looking for a “5 Ways to Listen Better” TED Talk speech summary, text, and analysis, we have provided one for you. Listening is an often overlooked component of communication. In “5 Ways to Listen Better”, Julian Treasure discusses the importance of this necessary skill.

TED Talk: “5 Ways to Listen Better” Speech Summary

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- People spend 60% of communication time listening, but only retain 25% of what they hear
- Listening is a mental process of making meaning from sound
- Techniques used in listening are pattern recognition, differencing, and filters
- Intention is important in listening, as well as sound placing us in space and time
- We are losing our listening due to recording technology, noise, impatience, and desensitization
- Conscious listening creates understanding and a world with no listening is scary
- 5 simple exercises to improve conscious listening: silence, the mixer, savoring, listening positions, and RASA (receive, appreciate, summarize, and ask)
- Listening needs to be taught as a skill in schools to transform the world to a conscious listening world
TED Talk: “5 Ways to Listen Better” Speech Text

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We are losing our listening. We spend roughly 60% of our communication time listening, but we’re not very good at it. We retain just 25% of what we hear now, not you, not this talk, but that is generally true. . Let’s define listening as making meaning from sound. It’s a mental process and it’s a process of extraction. We use some pretty cool techniques to do this.

One of them is pattern recognition. So in a cocktail party like this, if I say, David, Sarah, pay attention. Some of you just sat up. We recognize patterns to distinguish noise from signal, and especially our name.

Differencing is another technique we use. If I left this pink noise on for more than a couple of minutes, you would literally cease to hear it. We listen to differences. We discount sounds that remain the same, and then there is a whole range of filters. These filters take us from all sound down to what we pay attention to. Most people are entirely unconscious of these filters, but they actually create our reality in a way because they tell us what we are paying attention to right now. Give you one example of that.

Intention is very important in sound, in listening. When I married my wife, I promised her that I would listen to her every day as if for the first time. Now, that’s something I fall short of on a daily basis, , but it’s a great intention to have in a relationship. But that’s not all sound places us in space and in time.

If you close your eyes right now in this room, you are aware of the size of the room from the reverberation and the bouncing of the the sound off the surfaces, and you’re aware of how many people are around you because of the micro noises you’re receiving. And sound places us in time as well because sound always has time embedded in it. In fact, I would suggest that our listening is the main way that we experience the flow of time from past to future. So sonar is time and meaning. A great quote.

I said at the beginning, we are losing our listening. Why did I say that? Well, there are a lot of reasons for this. First of all, we invented ways of recording, first writing, then audio recording, and now video recording as well.

The premium on accurate and careful listening has simply disappeared. Secondly, the world is now so noisy with this cacophony going on visually and auditorially. It’s just hard to listen. It’s tiring to listen. Many people take refuge in headphones, but they turn big public spaces like this, shared soundscapes into millions of tiny little personal sound bubbles.

In this scenario, nobody’s listening to anybody. We’re becoming impatient. We don’t want Ory anymore. We want sound bites. And the art of conversation is being replaced dangerously.

I think by personal broadcasting. I don’t know how much listening there is in this conversation, which is sadly very common, especially in the uk. We’re becoming desensitized. Our media have to scream at us with these kind of headlines in order to get our attention, and that means it’s harder for us to pay attention to the quiet, the subtle, the understated.

This is a serious problem that we are losing our listening. This is not trivial because listening is our access to understanding. Conscious listening always creates understanding. And only without conscious listening can these things happen. A world where we don’t listen to each other at all is a very scary place indeed.

So I’d like to share with you five simple exercises, tools you can take away with you to improve your own conscious listening. Would you like that? Yes. Good. The first one is silence. Just three minutes A day of silence is a wonderful exercise to reset your ears and to recalibrate so that you can hear the quiet again. If you can’t get absolute silence, go for quiet. That’s absolutely fine.

Second, I call this the mixer. So E, even if you are in a noisy environment like this, and we all spend a lot of time in places like this, listen in the coffee bar to how many channels of sound can I hear? How many individual channels in that mix am I listening to? You can do it in a beautiful place as well.

Like a a lake. How many birds am I hearing? Where are they? Where are those ripples? It’s a great exercise for improving the quality of your listening.

Third, this exercise I call savoring, and this is a beautiful exercise. It’s about enjoying mundane sounds. This, for example, is my tumble dryer. It’s a waltz.

1,2,3,1,2,3,1,2, 3. I love it. Or just try this one on for size. Wow. So mundane sounds can be really interesting if you pay attention. I call that the hidden choir. It’s around us all the time. The next exercise is probably the most important of all of these.

If you just take one thing away. This is listening positions. The idea that you can move your listening position to what’s appropriate to what you are listening to. This is playing with those filters.

Remember I gave you those filters at the beginning. It’s starting to play with them as levers to get conscious about them and to move to different places. These are just some of the listening positions or scales of listening positions that you can use. There are many have fun with that.

It’s very exciting. And finally, an acronym. You can use this in listening in communication if you are in any one of those roles, and I think that probably is everybody who’s listening to this talk, the acronym is rasa, which is the Sanskrit word for juice or essence. And rasa stands for receive, which means pay attention to the person. Appreciate making little noises like, Hmm, oh, okay.

Summarize the word so is very important in communication. And ask. Ask questions afterwards. Now, sound is my passion. It’s my life. I wrote a whole book about it, so I live to listen.

That’s too much to ask for most people. But I believe that every human being needs to listen consciously in order to live fully connected in space and in time to the physical world around us, connected in understanding to each other. Not to mention spiritually connected, because every spiritual path I know of has listening and contemplation at its heart. That’s why we need to teach listening in our schools as a skill.

Why is it not taught? It’s crazy. And if we can teach listening in our schools, we can take our listening off that slippery slope to that dangerous, scary world that I talked about and move it to a place where everybody is consciously listening all the time, or at least capable of doing it. Now, I dunno how to do that, but this is Ted and I think the TED community is capable of anything. So I invite you to connect with me, connect with each other, take this mission out, and let’s get listening taught in schools, and transform the world in one generation to a conscious listening world, a world of connection, a world of understanding, and a world of peace. Thank you for listening to me today.

TED Talk: “5 Ways to Listen Better” Speech Analysis

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Word Choice

In “5 Ways to Listen Better”, Julian Treasure ranked well in the Word Choice category. His top keywords included “listening” at a total of 31 times, with his second most used word “sound” at 11 times. While he only had three filler words total, he used 32 weak words which was nearly over the natural limit of 4%.

In addition, Yoodli flagged the potential use of non-inclusive language with Treasure’s use of “crazy”. The AI-powered platform suggested the alternative word “confusing” instead.

Delivery

In the Delivery category, Yoodli rated Treasure well within the subcategories of both pauses and smiles. However, the speech coach suggested improvements for eye contact and centering. In addition, Yoodli detected Treasure’s pace averaging 172 words per minute, suggesting a pace slower than 170 words per minute

Wrapping Up

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TED Talk: “Secrets of Success” Speech Summary, Text, & Analysis

March 5th, 2023
If you are looking for a speech summary, text, and analysis of the TED Talk: “Secrets of Success”, we have provided one for you. In Richard St. John’s 3-minute speech, he discusses a topic questioned by many: what makes someone successful?

TED Talk: “Secrets of Success” Speech Summary

We ran St. John’s TED Talk through Yoodli, the AI-powered speech coaching platform. You can get started at https://yoodli.ai and view the full results here.
- The speaker was asked a simple question on a plane seven years ago by a teenager from a poor family: “What leads to success?”
- The speaker came to Ted to find an answer and interviewed 500 people to find out what makes Ted tick.
- Passion, hard work, focus, practice, pushing oneself through self-doubt, serving others, coming up with ideas, and persistence are the eight main things that lead to success.
- Mothers can help push someone who is struggling to persist.
- Paying to attend Ted is one way to learn success, but the eight things mentioned can also be used.
TED Talk: “Secrets of Success” Speech Text

Yoodli generated the following transcript for Richard St. John’s speech:

This is really a two hour presentation I give to high school students, cut down to three minutes, and it all started one day on a plane on my way to Ted seven years ago. And then the seat next to me was a, uh, high school student, a teenager. And she came from a really poor family and she wanted to make something of her life. And she asked me a simple little question. She said, what leads to success? And I felt really badly because I couldn’t give her a good answer.

So I get off the plane and I come to Ted and I think, geez, I’m in the middle of a room of successful people. So why don’t I ask them what helped them succeed and pass it on to kids. So here we are, seven years, 500 interviews later, and I’m gonna tell you what really leads to success and makes Ted tick. And the first thing is passion Freeman Thomas says, I’m driven by my passion. Ted, do it for love. They don’t do it for money. Carol Colletti says, I would pay someone to do what I do.

And the interesting thing is, if you do it for love, the money comes anyway. Work. Rupert Murdoch said to me, it’s all hard work. Nothing comes easily, but I have a lot of fun. Did he say fun? Rupert?

Yes. . Teds do have fun working and they work hard. I figured they’re not workaholics. They’re work of Frolics. Good.

Alice Garden says, to be successful, put your nose down in something and get damn good at it. There’s no magic. It’s practice, practice, practice. And it’s focus.

Norma Jewison said to me, I think it all has to do with focusing yourself on one thing and push. David Gallos says, push yourself physically, mentally. You’ve gotta push, push, push. You gotta push through shyness and self-doubt.

Goldie Han says, I always had self-doubt I wasn’t good enough. I wasn’t smart enough. I didn’t think I’d make it. Now, it’s not always easy to push yourself.

And that’s why they invented Mothers . Frank Erie. Frank Erie said to me, my mother pushed me. serve.

Sherwin Newland says it was a privilege to serve as a doctor. Now, a lot of kids tell me they want to be millionaires. And the first thing I say to them is, okay, well you can’t serve yourself. You gotta serve others something of value, because that’s the way people really get rich ideas. Ted Ster, bill Gates says, I had an idea founding the first microcomputer software company. I’d say it was a pretty good idea. And there’s no magic to creativity in coming up with ideas.

It’s just doing some very simple things and I give lots of of evidence. Persist. Joe Kraus says, persistence is the number one reason for our success. You gotta persist through failure.

You gotta persist through crap, which of course means criticism, rejection, assholes, and pressure . So the big an, the answer to this question is simple. Pay 4,000 bucks and come to Ted or failing that. Do the eight things. And trust me, these are the big eight things that lead to success. Thank you, Ted, for all your.

TED Talk: “Secrets of Success” Speech Analysis

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Word Choice

Despite the short length of the “Secrets of Success” speech, Richard St. John ranked well in the Word Choice category. His top keywords included “says” and “push”.

Yoodli detected 2% repetition in St. John’s TED Talk as well the presence of 11 weak words. Yoodli also found the presence of non-inclusive language in the form of profanity. By prioritizing the use of inclusive language, the content of your speech will be more widely appropriate to a broader audience.

Delivery

Yoodli detected that Richard St. John spoke at at average pace of 179 words per minute. With a pace faster than average, Yoodli suggests speaking slower than 170 words per minute. However, Yoodli ranked St. John’s delivery well in the subcategories of both pauses and smiles, but suggested overall improvement in eye contact, centering, and pacing

Wrapping Up

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Ted Talk: Lizzo Speech Summary, Text, & Analysis

March 5th, 2023
If you are looking for the Lizzo Ted Talk speech, a summary, text, and analysis has been provided for you. Lizzo, most well-known for her hit songs, “About Damn Time” and “Good as Hell”, delivered a Ted-talk following her well-known singing career.

Ted Talk: Lizzo Speech Summary

We ran Lizzo’s Ted Talk through Yoodli, the AI-speech coach, which generated the following summary of her speech. You can get started at https://yoodli.ai and view the full results here.
- The speaker grew up in an era when having a big ass wasn’t mainstream, and felt the odds were against them.
- Twerking has its roots in African dances and was alive and well in black communities before it became mainstream.
- The speaker was re-introduced to twerking at a club, and then incorporated it into their performances.
- Miley Cyrus popularized twerking in the mainstream, but it was taken out of context and seen as exploiting young women.
- The speaker wants to make sure that the origin story of twerking is preserved and that black culture isn’t erased from the creation of it.
- Twerking is a form of self-expression and freedom and can be a spiritual practice.
- Break-dancing was villainized in the media and wasn’t taken seriously, but is now an Olympic sport.
- The speaker twerks to reclaim their power, to reclaim their blackness, and to advocate for fat, black women.
Ted Talk: Lizzo’s Speech Text

Yoodli can generate the text transcript of any speech you upload or record. The speech text for Lizzo’s speech is included below:

Oh my God, I’m so, who’s the first watch seeing people since March, 2020? Hi. Hi people. I’ve had a lot of accomplishments, but this is a dream come true right now. So make some noise for the dress and now the back of the dress. Can we get booty cam please?

Booty cam. If you follow me on social media, you’ve probably seen my heinie before. It’s no secret , but you know, I used to hate my ass. Believe it or not.

I have my father’s shape and my mother’s size, so it’s big and long. I used to think that only ass is like JLo’s or Beyonce’s could be famous. I never thought that could happen to me. I always felt like my body type wasn’t the right one or the desirable one growing up. Cuz I grew up in an era where having a big ass wasn’t mainstream. I grew up watching movies where women were like, does my ass look fat in this? Like it was a bad thing. I felt like the ass odds were against me.

But baby, this B Donka Don Donk was going places. my ass has been the topic of conversation. My ass has been in magazines. Rihanna gave my ass a standing ovation. Yes, my booty, my least favorite part of my body.

How did this happen? Twerking . Through the movement of twerking, I discovered my ass is my greatest asset. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Ted Twerk . I’m gonna take my shoes off. Is that okay with y’all?

<laugh>. So the first time I saw twerking in person was at a teen club called the Z in Houston, Texas. Hey, shout out Houston. We got some Houstonians here, there. I saw a bunch of girls my age shaking their booty to New Orleans bouncing. I was like, how are they doing that? It was incredible to me. Thanks to my Caribbean besties peaches and jalene and thanks to Master P, whoop whoop .

I found the rhythm. The better I got, the more I fell in love with what I had because damn my ass could do magic. Finally, I could twerk, but twerking did not begin with me, believe it or not. , I know you think I invented it’s twerking. I didn’t .

I want you to know where twerking came from. I think everyone should know where everything comes from. You should know where your food and water come from. You should know where your clothes come from. , it’s important to me to keep the the origin story of twerking alive.

So here’s some farm to table for that ass . So funny, modern day twerking derived from black people and black culture. It has a direct parallel to West African dances like Map Puka. Traditionally. Map Puka was a dance for West African women to be used as a celebration of joy, religious worship, or a dance to do at a wedding To show you or dtf.

Or dtm. Down to Mary. Down to Mary. Get your mind out the gutter. black women carried these dances across the trans-Atlantic slave trade to the ring shout and what became the Black American church until the hips of Ma Rainy and Bessie Smith when they sang the blues into the bounce of Josephine Baker’s banana dance from jazz dance to jitterbug, from shake your tail feather to shake your thing to that thing Thinging black people carried the origins of this dance through our D n a through our blood, through our bones, we made twerking the global cultural phenomenon it has become today. Now as a big black woman who has ass, who can twerk and who’s been doing it her whole life. I kind of think I’m an expert on the subject .

I want to add to the classical etymology of this dance because it matters. Black people will not be erased from the creation, the history, and the innovation of twerking , thank you. From TikTok trends to songs and humor, we see so much erasure of what black people have created. So I wanna do everything in my power to prevent the erasure of blackness from twerking. Twerking is a black American communal collaboration, born of black southern culture from DJ Jubilee and Cashman records in New Orleans to Littlejohn and the Ying Yang twins in Atlanta to Uncle Luke in Miami. Twerking was alive and well in nearly every black club in the south, but it would take years after these songs were released for twerking to finally become mainstream.

I got a test for y’all. Uh oh. Uh oh. Uh oh. Oh no, no.

Uh oh. Uh oh. Uh oh. Oh no, no. You know that one?

Hold on. Y’all ain’t see it. Uhoh Uhoh. No, no, no. Theoh dance.

Beyonce called it that cuz she was trying to warn us because of Destiny’s child, bootylicious is in the dictionary and because of Beyonce’s 2003 music video for her single crazy in Love the World was introduced to the Uhoh dance. That was the first time I’d ever seen a pop star do something like that. And I wanted to be just like her. Beyonce gave me permission to be myself, to be Bootylicious because she could shake ass and still be seen as classy in the eyes of America.

And that was hard to do. When I moved from Houston to Minneapolis in the early 2010s, I hadn’t seen twerking in a while until Big Frieda’s tour came to town. Now big Frieda performs bounce music with the voice of a preacher in the body of a bad bitch. , if you can imagine this incredible big Frieda has a moment in her shows where she will call people on stage of twerk and she chose me from the audience to battle another person. And I remember being like, oh my God, I miss this so much.

<laugh>. When I was up there, I thought to myself, not only am I shaking ass, but I’m winning. And besides Big Frida, I’m the best twerker in the building. And just like that, I was reintroduced to twerking. When I started to perform my solo music, I began incorporating twerking into my performances and people would go crazy. I performed for mainly in the audiences. So they didn’t know what the fuck was happening.

And I liked it that way. twerking made me feel empowered. It was my secret language, my sauce. Little did I know that a couple years later, Miley Cyrus would perform, would seem like the twerk her around the world.

Y’all remember that? In 2013, within a month of each other, I released my debut project. Lizzo Bangers and Miley Cyrus released her project bangers that same year. Miley released a single We Can’t Stop. And she was twerking in the video. I remember being like, this is crazy.

Hannah Montana twerking all over the place, . A couple months later she performed with Robin thick on the VMAs. And that night, seemingly overnights twerking went mainstream. The media described twerking as a quote, disturbing and disgusting. Critics blasted twerking as something that was exploiting and over sexualizing young women. Once mainstream twerking was misunderstood and taken out of context, it was bittersweet. For one, I wish that a black woman could have popularized twerking in the mainstream.

But on the other end, twerking going mainstream played a role in the rise of my profile and my career. Listen, everything that black people create from fashion to music to the way we talk is co-opted, appropriated, and taken by pop culture. For this reason, optimism can be an illusion to the experience of black people in America. In this Ted Talk, I’m not trying to gate keep, but I’m definitely trying to let you know who built the damn gate.

The fact that I can make a stake in the reclamation of black things and black culture makes me very optimistic to be on stage at the Premier conference for the experts in their field talking about twerking and stating my facts makes me optimistic. The best thing I can do is be loud and take ownership. Because for me, twerking is is a pearl of optimism. It’s a form of self-expression. Freedom, confidence, twerking is not just something I do to music. It’s extremely useful.

<laugh>, it manifested my life in ways that I need more joy. In the mornings twerking leads me to stretching and taking care of my body. I bend over and I isolate my cheeks. I’m a downward dog, not my stay . Sometimes I put on a song and I shake ass and immediately I’m in love with myself. And not just self love, I mean like, okay, Lizzo, what’s your number? , I would do me.

But it’s not just sexual, it’s not. It’s twerking is a deep, soulful spiritual practice. It’s hip opening, it’s empowering when performed as the maka, it’s set to connect you to God. It’s sacred. And now we’re practicing that on mainstream stages. We’re practicing that at home and it’s contributing to the liberation of women and people around the world. It’s twerking is good for humanity. , 40 years ago when black and brown people in New York invented break dancing, it was villainized mainstream media weaponized break dancing by connecting it to gang activity and violence as an art form and subculture.

It wasn’t taken seriously. Fast forward to today, break dancing is now an Olympic sport. What will be the future of twerking? .

Russian ballet dancers are twerking. Have you seen it? They be like this. Y’all think I’m playing okay out there like . Can we clear Chaikovsky ? Will we see twerking as an Olympic sport one day?

And will black people still be part of it? I’m proud to be a twerk pioneer. I’m grateful for the ass that came before me. all hell.

Beyonce. Nicki Minaj from Betty Boot to Buffy the Body. When I shake this ass, I do it for the culture, not the vulture. For me, twerking ain’t a trend. My body is not a trend. I twerk for the strippers for the video vixens for the church. Ladies who shout for the sex workers, I twerk because black women are undeniable. I twerk for my ancestors, for sexual liberation, for my bitches. Hey girl, because I can.

Because I know I look good. I twerk because it’s unique to the black experience. It’s unique to my culture and it means something real to me. I twerk because I’m talented, because I’m sexual.

But not to be sexualized. , I twerked to own my power, to reclaim my blackness, my culture. I twerked for fat. Black women because being fat and black is a beautiful thing. , I twerked work because this as natural to me as breathing.

Black women invented twerking and twerking is part of the revolution. We’ve been doing it. We gonna keep on doing it because we have and always will be the blueprint. We twerk to remind ourselves we hear and we ain’t going nowhere.

So in a case of optimism, I want everyone to stand up and shake some ass with me. Are y’all ready? Come on y’all. I been waiting for this one. Show you.

How do you going in the circle now? Hi. Hi . Let’s go. I see y’all. Okay.

You really er on see what you do. Okay, okay, okay, okay. Okay. I like what you doing. Hey. Hey. Thank you so much. I dunno why I’m emotional, but I feel like we made history tonight. So thank you so much.

Ted Talk: Lizzo’s “History of Twerking” Speech Analysis

Yoodli simplifies speech analysis into two primary categories: Word Choice and Delivery. Overall Lizzo ranked well in both categories, however, Yoodli provided suggestions for improvement.

Word Choice

Yoodli detected that Lizzo’s speech had 3% repetitions, nearly over the average 4%. In addition, the AI speech coach found the use of 29 filler words, with the most used word being “oh”.

The singer’s top keywords throughout her 14-minute speech included “twerking” at 38 times, which was paralleled by the use of the word “twerk” at 12 times total! Her second most used word was “black” at a total of 23 times.

Lizzo’s weakest word used was “so” at 14 times, with other weak words only used once on average.

With Lizzo’s Ted Talk discussing a topic that may be seen as taboo, Yoodli flagged 29 instances of profanity in Lizzo’s speech.

Delivery

Yoodli detected that Lizzo spoke at a conversational pace at 155 words per minute. Yoodli also detected the presence of eye contact, pauses, smiles, but also provided suggestions for centering.

Wrapping Up

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