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speech classes help in making one's presentations informative, the delivery and arguments are 
interesting and entertaining to the listener. Furthermore, the experience and lessons learned from 
the speech class go a long way in helping mold one's abilities to think critically and research 
extensively in averted enhancing one's overall academic performance. 
Listening is one of the most vital skill sets that one could have in their soft skills 
inventory. Ironically, it is one of the least taught communication skills that we are ever trained 
about throughout our academic journey. Public speaking classes will in actual sense aide one to 
becoming a better and active listener. While the skill acquired will help ones gain a better 
understanding and take better notes through lecture sessions the benefits of being a better listener 
a more relational. This greatly increases one's social skills thereby helping ones develop 
relationships that are more meaningful to the people ones deem important in one's life.  
Going through speech classes helps build one’s courage and confidence to be able to 
voice one's inner thoughts ideas and better sell ones opinion to the public. Among the soft skills 
learned are the articulation of ideas, ability to research and organize what one has to say into 
intentional and meaningful narratives. The experience gained from the speech classes come in 
handy when ones can change the opinion of a crowd and steer them into one way of the thinking 
taking advantage of one's influence, mastery, delivery, and command of the language. The 
obtained skills help build ones confidence and be able to engage people with a conviction 
making ones a great orator and facilitator.  
Speech classes allow the students to be creative and come up with ideas in a short time 
and at the same time sound fluid. These classes are therefore crucial towards the holistic 
grooming of students and therefore should be required for most if not all the degrees.