For non-native English speakers · Toasts & occasions
Sound sure of yourself
in toasts & occasions.
Weddings, farewells, celebrations — say it well. Your grammar is not the problem. What makes English sound confident is which word takes the weight, where the pause goes, and where the voice rises and falls — and nobody teaches that. Below are real lines for this situation with those three things marked. Hear each one said well, record yours, and see how close you came. Free, no account.
gold = the word that takes the weight · ‖ = a pause · ↗ the voice rises · ↘ the voice lands · → stays up, more to come
8 of 100 lines in this path
Lines people actually say.
Marked by the same engine that marks your own script in the app. The gold word is the one to lean on; everything else is lighter than you think.
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mediumWeddings and celebrations
A wedding toast
I've known Sam for twenty years.
In all that time, I've never seen him this happy.
Maya, thank you for that.
To the two of you.
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mediumWork and milestones
Maid of honour
People say you should marry your best friend.
Nobody warns the actual best friend.
To Priya, who I am delighted to share.
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mediumTributes
A leaving speech for yourself
I have written and deleted this about six times.
So I will just say the true thing.
I will miss this, and I will miss you.
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mediumHarder occasions
Toasting an unlikely success
Nobody thought this would work.
Including, at several points, us.
To being wrong in the right direction.
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mediumShort and warm
Toasting resilience
It has been a bruising eighteen months.
Everyone in this room chose to stay.
That is not nothing, and it should be said.
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mediumSpeaking with feeling
A toast when you barely know them
Nadia asked me to say something, which is brave given we met in March.
So I'll say what I've seen in five months.
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mediumWork and community
A toast to a difficult project finishing
This project has been a misery and it's over.
I'm not going to pretend it was fun.
To finishing.
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easyWork and community
A last-minute toast
I've been asked to do this about ninety seconds ago.
So it will be short and it will be true.
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What this path covers
The moments inside it.
- A wedding toastWarm, funny, sincere
- A farewellSend someone off well
- A birthday tributeCelebrate someone
One last thing
Hear it in a voice like yours,
then in yours.
Pick the accent closest to yours and hear one voice say a line flat, then confident — same words, same accent. Then practise any of these lines against it. Your own voice takes a ten-second read and a free account. No card.