Reflection Of A Speech: My Experience About The Arabic Food

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For this speech, my goal was to share with the class an interesting and informative speech about something related to my culture; therefore, I choose to share with them my experience about the Arabic food. I demonstrated my credibility about the topic, and shared two of the most popular Arabic foods. From this experience, I have learned several things that I could benefit from for my future speeches, such as: what are my weaknesses that I need to work on and what are the things that I did well and need to develop more.
I have learned a lot about myself from this experience. The first thing that I learned is at what are some of the strategies to reduce stress. Before giving a speech, it is very important to feel prepared for the speech, and …show more content…

One of the main things that I did well, was trying to maintain eye contact with everyone from my audience. Trying not to relay on my note cards a lot helped me to look at everyone; however, some of my audiences said that I was doing more eye contact with one side of the class than the other side so I need to work on that more. Another thing that I think I did well was using gesture. Since I was holding my note card with one hand, I was able to use my other hand to do some gesture to demonstrate some of the ideas presented in my speech. In addition to maintaining eye contact and using gesture, I liked the visual aid that I used for my speech because it supported my speech and a lot of my audiences liked the information that were provided through my visual aid.
Those were some of the things that I think that I did well; however; if I was given a second chance, there are some of the things thing that I would try to do better, such as trying to slow down a bit and speak a little bit louder so everyone could hear my speech clearly.
Overall, it was a new and great experience that I really enjoyed a lot. I have learned about the strength and weakness of my speech and how to overcome my weakness. I think the speech went well and I was able to inform the audience about a new and interesting topic and this was shown from the feedback that I got from the audience.

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