I really struggle to articulate myself

your username is just perfect for this thread

Practice it more and do in environments yu are comfortable in. Try it over voice chat with people online first? Try it with your family, then friends, then push yourself and do it with strangers you meet in random classes, eventually do talks and receive arbitrary questions... At that point you'll be fine haha.

Read a hell of a lot.

Practice talking more? Surely I've been practicing my whole life? I'm reasonably quiet... so do you reckon I should just force myself to be more talkative and that it'll help improve it?

Not talking more. Debating more. Talking with meaning. Not small talk. Talking with assertion, like you know you are right and they are wrong and you will prove them so. That sort of talk.

And read lots of persuasive writing, that is, non-fiction that is trying to argue a point.

Ah, okay, that makes a lot more sense haha.

I think a lot of my problem probably stems from not being assertive enough. I always tend to trail off when I think I'm not interesting someone or that they disagree with me.

Any persuasive writing in particular you recommend?

Is this based on anything else do you think? Are you a very anxious / nervous / reserved person in general? Often people know what they want to say and do so well when they're typing / texting (like you've conveyed very well in your OP) but have difficulty doing it when it's around people.

Your OP described me to a tee, but after I went to therapy to get help for the anxiety I became just as good as anyone. Obviously my scenario might be more extreme than yours, a definite possibility, but just giving my experience on what I felt really helped me with the huge issue of articulation and whatnot.

Is English your second language? I have the same problem therefore i hate getting essays for homework, i hate public speaking....

As do I except on paper. That's because my friend regularly tells me to shut up and that I have terrible opinions (on comics and films) when I try to express them. (Was just about to make my own thread on this) I also spent my childhood being talked down to and called retarded and gullible. Were you also bullied OP?

I am the same as you OP and I find it very annoying. I'm naturally shy in certain situations such as being in meetings and around large groups of people. I am confident in front of my friends, but when it comes to debates, serious conversations, meetings, talking in front of people I don't know or large groups, I find it very hard to get my point across and articulate my self. I would also like to know how to improve on this so I will be watching this thread


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Nope, it's my first language! I can imagine it being much harder if it's not!