Personal Review: The Right To Speak By Patsy Rodenburg

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Ayobami Adedeji Journal 1 After reading chapter 1 and 2 of ‘’The Right to Speak, by Patsy Rodenburg,’’ one thing that stood out to me was the term of ‘’self judgement’’. I liked the point the author made about self-judgement, which almost everyone is guilty of we turn to judge ourselves every time we speak with our voice. We start to make comments on our voice like, ‘’I think I was too loud, people won’t understand me because my voice sound weird with my accent." Patsy made people understand that self-judgment isn’t true at all she also passed a message across that people shouldn't be so quick to judge their voice, but we should try to concentrate on sounding more confident and

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