Toastmasters

1. How do we, Japanese, send
messages in English?
District 76 Fall Conference 2009
Kiminari Azuma
PXP05102@gmail.com
2007 & 2008 Champion District 76
Yamato Bilingual Toastmasters Club
Fantasista Toastmasters Club

2. My wish
I want to improve
my communication skills
in English!
So I can effortlessly
communicate in English!

3. Hope?
English proficiency level
Problems
Messages

4. Hope?
English proficiency level
?? QUESTION ??
Good English = Good Speech
Problems
1) True
2) False
3) Maybe
Messages

5. ? ? ?

6. AGENDA
Speech Contest Judging Criteria
Contents : 50 points
Delivery : 30 points
Language : 20 points

7. What to say? : Contents 50pts
Where could we find speech topics?
Mark Hunter, World Champion, 2009
Lessons learned from his grandmother
Lashunda Rundles, World Champion, 2008
Speak straight to your fear, and right to
your purpose. (Lessons learned from mom)
Vikas Jhingran, World Champion, 2007
The ultimate answer is always in me.
Edward Hearn, World Champion, 2006
Lessons learned from a toy punching
bag.

8. What to say? : Contents 50pts
Stories
Collect Topics
Messages
“If my life ended tomorrow,
Select what message would I want to
leave for kids?”
Mark Brown, Champion 1995
To be continued

9. What to say? : Contents 50pts
If my life ended
tomorrow..
Select CORE MESSAGE
SUPPORTING STORIES
Select FACTS
QUOTES
To be continued

10. What to say? : Contents 50pts
CORE MESSAGE
P Point
•SUPPORTING STORIES
R Reason
•FACTS
•QUOTES
E Examples
P Point

11. What to say? : Contents 50pts
Let’s try!
P Point I love Yokohama.
Because there are
R Reason
many nice places.
1.Workpia is fantaistic.
E Examples
2.China Town is so nice.
3. Yamashita Koen is
so romantic.
P Point I love Yokohama.

12. What to say? : Contents 50pts
Your Turn!
P Point CORE MESSAGE
R Reason
•SUPPORTING STORIES
E Examples •FACTS
•QUOTES
P Point CORE MESSAGE

13. What to say? : Contents 50pts
Your Turn!
P Point CORE MESSAGE
R Reason
•SUPPORTING STORIES
E Examples •FACTS
•QUOTES
P Point CORE MESSAGE

14. What to say? : Contents 50pts
Your Turn!
P Point CORE MESSAGE
R Reason Public Speaking is
Tell a story,
•SUPPORTING STORIES
E Examples •FACTS make a point.
•QUOTES
David Brooks
1990, World Champion
P Point CORE MESSAGE

15. How to say? : Delivery 30pts
Stage
practice
Video Recording
Practice it
at least 10 times
Memorize

16. Practice
The Painful Peace-making Process
Who are your enemies? You may have one, or some. I have many.
“The best way to destroy your enemy is to make him your friend.” This is President Abraham Lincoln’s famous quote.
But I learned this from my enemy through the painful peacemaking process.
Mr. Contest chair, ladies and gentlemen, and Mr. D, who was my enemy.
He and I worked for the same company for 20 years. He was 15 years older than I, and he retired at the end of last
year. Although he was objectively a lovable personality, I didn’t get along with him at all.
He was bossy to his colleagues acting like a slave-driver to the younger staff, and especially to me.
Three years ago, he and I were working on a project. In our project discussions, he never stopped talking because he
was always fascinated with his own brilliant ideas. Then I always felt ”Huh?”
Because his ideas sounded to me boringly conservative, painfully classic, and horribly counter-productive, which, I
believed, wasted my time.
Ultimately, I avoided having face-to-face meetings with him, and shifted to communication via email.
Email was very good. I didn’t hesitate to ask him to do this, and do that until he complained that I had relied on email
too much, but I didn’t care. I knew he wasn’t good at emailing,
I took over the project control. I became a slave-driver to him. An eye for an eye.
Was it fun? Oh, absolutely.
When I saw him making mistakes, (hehehehehe) I was happy. But when he pointed out my mistakes, I got angry.

17. Practice
The Painful Peace-making Process
“ Mr. D, It’s truly unfortunate that you and I had lots of bad memories, and I almost always felt
uncomfortable with you.”
The room became deadly quiet. And the silence was deafening. Then, there was a pregnant pause
“You were really nasty to me for 20 years. You were really a good “bad role model” to me.”
Having said this, I started breathing again. Taking the fresh air in, I regained my composure.
“But those were all valuable lessons to me.” “I learned how to not behave like you. I learned how to
not talk to people like you did. You were really a bad role model. I learned from you what’s
important about being a nice person. ”
Then, without thinking, I blurted out.
“Thank you, Mr. D, for your priceless lessons. All the best and good luck!”
Then I drained another glass of beer as if I were drowning all my bad memories.
At the end of this painful peacemaking process, I looked at him; he smiled a very poignant smile at me.
Ladies and gentlemen, who are your enemies? You may have one, some, or many.
But let’s remember, you are still consciously and unconsciously, and maybe subconsciously learning
from your enemies every day; and you become better than yesterday.
When you learn from your enemies, they become a part of you.
When they are a part of you, ladies and gentlemen, they are not your enemies anymore.

18. Playback
“The Painful Peace-making Process”
Inter-District A speech contest
Calgary, Canada
August 2007

19. Final Structure
P Point
“The best way to destroy your
enemy is to make him your friend.”
R Reason
I learned this through my painful
peace-making process with my enemy(,
which I want to share with you.)
Story 1 : Fights with Mr. D.
E Examples Story 2 : I came to think that I wanted
to stop fighting with him.
Story 3 : Lessons learned at the
farewell party.
When you learn from your enemies, they
P Point become a part of you.
When they are a part of you, ladies and
gentlemen, they are not your enemies anymore.

20. AGENDA
Contents : 50 points
Delivery : 30 points
Language : 20 points

21. What am doing?
The more you listen, the more you can listen!

22. What am doing?
The more you read,
the more you can hear!

23. What am doing?
The more you hear/read,
the more you can write/speak!

24. Hope?
English proficiency level
Problems
Messages

25. Hope?
English proficiency level
?? QUESTION ??
Good language = Good Speech
Problems
1) Important part
2) Make your message deeper
3) Flexibility
Messages

27. QUESTIONS???

28. Why do want to
send message in
English?

29. Many of life's failures are people
who did not realize how close they
were to success when they gave up.
Thomas Alva Edison
(February 11, 1847 – October 18, 1931)