Fifteen minutes. Four small steps.
Stage fright shrinks the same way for everyone: you speak a little, survive it, and speak a little more. Do these four steps and you are done for today.
From an empty room to a real audience
Each week adds a few more listeners. Tick a step when you do it. Move up only when the current week feels "a bit nervous, but fine". Going slower is allowed. Skipping ahead is not.
About you — what the prompts and Claude's feedback are based on
Free talk
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Target: 1:30
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Coach's notes
Your words, marked
Speech recognition quietly deletes many "um" and "uh" sounds, so your real filler count is probably higher. Listening to your recording is the honest check.
Listen back
Listen once. Write down one thing you did well before you look for mistakes.
Deeper feedback on grammar and word choice
Pick one. Talk. Laugh at yourself a little.
Each game trains one skill speakers need on a real stage: thinking on your feet, keeping going, explaining simply, handling hard questions, and speaking clearly. They are short on purpose. Three rounds a day beats one long session a week.
Everything to read before you speak
Calm your body
Your body cannot panic and breathe out slowly at the same time. A long exhale is the fastest brake you have.
Use it in the morning, right before you practise, and in the last five minutes before a real talk. Breathe in through your nose, out through your mouth.
What fear gets wrong
If you blank in the middle of a talk
- Stop. Pause. A three-second silence looks like thinking, not failing.
- Breathe out slowly once.
- Look at your note card for the next keyword.
- Say: "Let me go back to my main point." Then say your main point again.
- Or repeat the last thing you said in different words. Your brain will catch up.
- Nobody knows your script. If you skipped something, they will never notice.
Before a real talk
- Memorise your first two sentences word for word. The opening is when nerves peak; a fixed opening carries you through it.
- Know your three main points, not the whole script. Speak from keywords on small cards.
- Practise out loud at least three times. Practising in your head does not count.
- Do one practice in front of a person, even one friend, even on a video call.
- Arrive early. Stand where you will speak. Say one sentence out loud in the empty room.
- Two minutes of long-exhale breathing right before you start.
- Say your first sentence slower than feels natural. Nervous speakers rush.
- Find three friendly faces in different parts of the room and talk to them.
- Plan your last line. A clear ending ("Thank you. I'm happy to take questions.") feels much better than fading out.
- Afterwards, write down one thing that went well before anything that went wrong.
Speech structures
Fear gets worse when you don't know what to say next. A structure tells you. Learn PREP first; it fits almost every question.
Useful phrases
Press Hear to listen to the phrase, then say it out loud three times. Learn whole phrases, not single words: they come out automatically when you are nervous.
Pronunciation
These sounds don't exist in Bangla, or work differently, so they are the ones most worth practising. Then test yourself with the Clear Speech game: the recogniser tells you which words it could not understand.
Word stress for your field
The capital part is said louder and longer. Wrong stress confuses listeners more than a wrong vowel.
Proof that it is working
The line to watch is "nervous before speaking". It will go down slowly, with bad days in between. That is normal.