It is easy to practice this at home or at work – sight-read stories from the newspaper, or print off the national summary and make yourself sight read it, changing the tone for each story as appropriate. Read loads of material aloud, sight unseen so you can get into the habit of adapting your vocal will build up your vocabulary, not just the meaning of the words, but also their pronunciation and also the context in which they are used. That way you can better predict where a sentence or explanation is headed for, which helps every part of your read: the tone, intonations, speed, and so on, all elements that we have looked at during this podcast/book.
As well as the words themselves, the more you read the more you will understand the structure of sentences, story arcs in fiction books and, in non-fiction, debates which may be discussed or positions being posited.
A note on audio-books which we will look at in more detail later, by their very nature they are books which have been written to be read ‘by the eye’ and not ‘by the mouth’, that is not to be read aloud, conversationally. That means that the grammar is not necessarily ‘speaker-friendly’, making such books sometimes tricky to navigate sight-unseen.
So, the best advice for rehearsing cold-reading? Lots of reading aloud and lots of different formats and styles.
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