Do you enjoy public speaking?

[plarq]

Without eggs and tomatoes, I'm game.

Deep inside of me I want perform, to show who I am, what I will do, and how I feel about. Currently I keep silent.

 

[Dann]

I can deal with business or design presentations. Crowd isn't big, people are behaved, and I've had time to prepare and know what I'm talking about.

But a banquet hall full of guests during some wedding? An auditorium full of schoolkids? Noooooo.....

 

[AL_DA_GREAT]

I don't like it but I don't have a problem with it. Depends on the subject, who it is I am speaking for, how many, etc.

 

[Sophie 378]

I used to be completely blasé about it, with all the concerts and plays that I was in as a kid. Stage fright was completely unknown - it's almost boring just doing your routine act/dance/sing/speak/play etc yet again after so many rehearsals. Once I started school and they made you Give A Talk on stuff, I learned to hate and fear it. Maybe because I never actually made myself a written speech and practiced it, just made some crappy prompt cards and even worse OHP sheets. Oh, actually, in foreign (Spanish/French/German lessons) it's fine because everyone is rooting for you and doing their best to help, and all my worries are that I'm getting the vocab and pronunciation correct, rather than if I'm actually doing well as a speaker.

 

[Azash]

I really like public speaking. I seem to have the gift of the gab, too, in that I can give a speech without notes after five to ten minutes of preparation on a particular subject.

 

[Gogf]

I enjoy it, as long as I like what I'm saying.

 

[HypnosTene]

I used to hate it myself, even the thought of giving a presentation at school scared the *bleep* out of me. But then, somewhere around my 2nd year of college, I realised I am actually pretty good at it, and have since learned to enjoy it.

 

[Technocactus]

It's great in English, but horrible in a foreign language.

 

[Hygro]

the thought of hearing my own voice from the speakers are scary enough...

I used to feel that way. Now I prefer microphones--it amplifies power.