Re: Learning to communicate
I dunno if this is helpful, but it might be. Try slowing down your talking some. I used to talk way too fast. That makes it harder for people to understand the actual words that you are saying, and it makes them less polished, which means you're even more incomprehensible. Sit down with a friend and a tape recorder and try to explain something to them (perhaps why you're recording them). Play it back and listen to the speed of your speech. See if there's room to slow it down to give yourself more time to go over what you're saying.
Also, consider what you say while you're thinking. If you're nervous, you might fill your pauses with something like "er" or "um," which is bad. People will remain attentive for a surpising amount of time if you say nothing at all during a break in your speech. (Maybe trail out your final word a little or make some kind of hand gesture to indicate that you're thinking.) But if you fill up pauses with "um, um, um, um," you'll lose people almost immediately.
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