Tips on How to Memorize a SpeechPresenting a speech can be a difficult situation, no matter how many times you've given one in the past. The worst thing any speaker can do is attempt to deliver a speech that has not been fully committed to their memory. Speeches should be conversations with your audiences; you want them to feel as though you are talking to them, not reading to them.

There are several things that a speaker can do to memorize their speech. The most effective way to store a speech into your memory is to write it yourself. You are more likely to remember something that you have brainstormed to create. However, if you are like most speakers, you probably had a team create your speech for you, and now you are scrambling to retain it. The first step is easy, simply read through the speech. Make sure you understand every word, sentence and meaning of the speech, if you don't, you will be more likely to replace a word you are unfamiliar with, with a word that you normally use in your everyday conversations, or stumble over those words.

After you have read through your speech and can confirm you fully understand it, you have a few options. Some speakers opt to rewrite or type their speeches over and over again. A lot of the time, the things that we see and translate onto paper sticks in our memory, unfortunately, not everyone has enough free time to write the same thing twenty times. If you are pressed for time, one of the best things you can do is record your speech into a tape recorder or onto your computer. This will allow you to play it back and hear it again and again, in the car, shower, office, anywhere you are able to play it back. It's the same principle as listening to the radio and eventually learning all of the timing, notes and lyrics. It's due to the constant repetition.

Science has proven that people store information in their sleep with their sub conscience. Have you ever fallen asleep with the television or radio on and woke up with a song stuck in your head and you are positive you did not hear it? Chances are it was on while you were asleep and stored into your memory with your subconscious. When your sub conscience and conscience linked in the morning, it was now stuck in your head. It's the same concept. Listening to something repeatedly in your sleep will help to add it to your memory bank, and then while you are studying your speech while awake, your brain is able to pull from your sub conscience, causing memorization to be a lot easier.

Giving a speech can be stressful enough, with simple techniques, memorizing your speech doesn't have to be, which will allow you to focus on more important things; being mentally prepared and deciding what to wear.