How to sound more powerful in English

How do you express anger?

How do you express anger using your voice?

For many people, it is very hard to express anger in any language,

even in their first language, let alone when it comes to expressing

anger in a second language.

However, connecting your voice with your emotions can help you feel more

expressive, authentic, connected with your emotions, and also will help you create

rapport with a person you're speaking to.

It'll also help you get what you want and say what you wanna say.

But more importantly, expressing your anger will help you release the

negative energy that is in your body and help you move on with your day.

In this video, we're gonna do three things to help you express your

strong emotions using your voice.

First, I'm gonna teach you an exercise to help you connect

your voice with your emotions.

The second thing is I'm gonna teach you some phrases to use when you are angry.

And through that we're gonna practice expressing your anger.

And three, we're gonna imitate a scene where strong emotions are portrayed.

And you are going to allow yourself to be angry using someone else's words.

By the way, if you are new to my channel, my name is Hadar, I'm a

non-native speaker of English, and I am here to help you speak English

with clarity, confidence, and freedom.

You can check out my website at hadarshemesh.com where I have a ton of

exercises for you and free downloads for you to build your confidence and

fluency and pronunciation in English.

And you can also follow me on Instagram and TikTok for

daily motivation and practice.

So the first thing is I'm gonna teach you an exercise to help you

connect your voice with your emotion.

By the way, I recommend that you do these exercises when you're on your own.

So close the door, get in the car, or go into the shower, and make sure

that there's no one around you so you don't feel like someone's judging you.

We don't need that, not today.

All right.

So let's get started.

I want you to stand up and make sure that your knees are loose, right,

so you wanna bounce them around.

And now we're gonna release sound.

So you're gonna take a deep breath into your belly and then you're

gonna release sound on your breath and try to go as low as possible.

When the voice resonates in your chest and you connect with your lower pitch,

the lower pitch of your voice, then this is where you can tap into all the

emotions that you have inside your belly.

All right, so let's take a deep breath and release air.

Now let's take a deep breath and release sound: [ah].

Now pay attention that you're not releasing your voice from up here,

or that your voice is not stuck here.

All right?

We don't wanna yell.

You just want to release sound on top of your breath.

Okay?

So shake your body a little bit, bounce your knees, and let's do it again.

Now I want you to do it again, and I want you to bounce your knees

as you're releasing sound, and you want the sound to be affected by it.

Let's do it.

All right, good.

So, the more you do it, the more you connect your voice with your breath.

And when you do that, when you're able to do that, when the voice is

not detached from your breath, you are more likely to be able to connect

it with your emotions in your body.

So if you're doing this and you're tapping into a sound that you're

not used to experiencing, you may be surprised to notice that you're starting

to feel all these different feelings.

It really taps into areas in your soul, sometimes, that you weren't connected to.

All right.

The second thing is that we're gonna take some phrases and we're

gonna charge them with emotion.

So the first phrase is going to be 'No way'.

Okay?

'No way'.

So it's a good vocabulary practice as well, and connected speech.

'No way'.

'No way'.

Okay.

Take a deep breath.

'No way!' Let's do it again.

Take a deep breath.

'No way!' One more time.

'No way!' Now, when you do this, you can also put in front of you someone that

you have always wanted to speak up to or to say 'no way' to, and that might even

help you connect with those emotions.

All right.

Now, let's say 'How dare you'.

'How dare you'.

Stress is on the 'dare'.

'How dare you'.

'How dare you'.

All right, let's take a deep breath.

'How dare you!' And if you feel like you're straining your voice: [how dare

you] or [how dare you], try to bring your voice as low as possible, okay?

Connect it with your breath, breathe into your belly, and try it again.

'How dare you!' 'No way!' 'How dare you!' One last one: cut it out.

'Cut it out'.

'Cut it out!' 'Cut it out!' Or, 'Stop it!' 'Stop it!' 'Cut it

out!' 'Stop it!' 'Cut it out!

'Stop it!'.

All right.

Let's shake.

Shake it out.

All right.

Last but not least, we're gonna take a scene and we're

gonna practice it together.

Now, I have more scenes that are very powerful on my website, so you can

just click the link below to get it.

But this is something that I often do with my students, it's called the Power

Speech, where they need to memorize a scene where strong emotions are expressed,

and they need to make it their own.

And I wanna tell you a story of one of my students, her name is Juliet.

And Juliet had a very soft spoken voice, beautiful, delicate voice.

And there she had to do the power speech, and she did a magnificent job.

And afterwards she told us, "I did not even think it was possible

for my voice to be this powerful.

I never gave myself permission to feel angry, let alone to express my anger."

And that was an 'aha' moment for her.

And all it took was one exercise where she allowed herself to explore other

areas of her voice and of her emotions.

So the scene we're gonna practice is from 'Shameless'.

And let's take a quick look at the beginning of the scene.

"I was nine!

Nine, and taking care of you, taking care of all of us.

I was in fourth grade dragging your ass, passed out, in from the yard

so you wouldn't freeze to death.

Staying up all night with Ian when he had chickenpox.

I washed Carl's shitty diapers.

I picked lice out of Liam's hair.

And I was here when Debbie got her first period.

Not Monica."

So we're gonna practice together just the first few sentences, but

if you wanna practice the rest or other scenes, then go to my website.

All right, let's do it.

"I was nine!"

'I was nine!' Now, if you want to improve this exercise, think about

what this character is experiencing.

In this case, it's betrayal and abandonment and anger and frustration,

right, all of these different emotions.

You can even tap into that emotion and think about what it means for you,

how it feels like inside your body.

And try to channel it through the words.

'I was nine!' 'I was nine!' Try it again.

And again.

"Nine, and taking care of you".

'Nine, and taking care of you'.

All right.

Go full out.

You're angry, you're frustrated.

'And taking care of you!' Let's do it again.

'And taking care of you!'

"Taking care of all of us."

So the sentence here is: Taking care of all of us.

So first, let's get comfortable with the pronunciation: taking care of all of us.

It's all connected.

'Taking care of all of us'.

'Taking care of all of us'.

Right?

So now breathe in, and with anger or whatever strong emotion that comes

up: 'Taking care of all of us!' Again.

'Taking care of all of us!'

"I was in fourth grade dragging your ass, passed out, in from the yard."

'I was in fourth grade, dragging your ass, passed out, in from the yard'.

'dragging your ass, passed out, in from the yard'.

"so you wouldn't freeze to death".

'so you wouldn't freeze to death'.

Stress is on 'freeze'.

'so you wouldn't freeze to death'.

'so you wouldn't freeze to death'.

"Staying up all night with Ian when he had chickenpox".

'Staying up all night'.

'Staying up all night with Ian'.

'Staying up all night with Ian'.

Now charge it: 'Staying up all night with Ian!' 'When he had chickenpox'.

'When he had chickenpox'.

Now charge it: 'when he had chickenpox!' Good.

Now I'm gonna show you the clip and the line and you repeat it.

"I was nine!"

"Nine, and taking care of you,"

"taking care of all of us."

"I was in fourth grade dragging your ass, passed out, in from the yard"

"so you wouldn't freeze to death".

"Staying up all night with Ian when he had chickenpox."

All right.

Let's take a deep breath, and shake it out.

Good.

All right, my friend, you did great, great job.

Okay, so a quick recap: to be able to connect your voice with your

strong emotions, here's what we did.

First, we did a vocal exercise to help you connect your deeper voice

with your breath, and recognizing that your entire body is a part of it.

Second, we took some phrases that express anger, and we used them and we

charged them with our strong emotions.

And the third thing we did is we practiced a power speech – a strong monologue or

dialogue, where we use someone else's lines to express our own emotions.

I hope this was helpful.

Like I said, there are more resources on my website, so check it out, the link

is in the comments, in the description.

And I would love to hear from you - how you feel, what you think about it,

how this exercise made you feel.

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All right.

I hope you have a beautiful, beautiful rest of the day, filled

with all the possible emotions that you would like to experience.

Take care, and I'll see you next week in the next video.

Bye.