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🎙️ Global Yuva Speech Club
Free · Grades K–12 · Follows NSDA standards
Find your voice.
Become a great communicator.
Build your speech. Practice it. Earn your badge.
1 · Your grade
2 · Your speech type
Practice badges
Earn them as you grow.
Unlocked on this device as you build and practice.
Coach-verified badges
Bronze to Great Communicator.
Submit a recording. A Global Yuva coach listens, gives feedback and awards your badge.
Competition-ready · NSDA standards
Train for speech and debate.
Grades 6–12 follow the National Speech & Debate Association (NSDA) standards: the same event formats and time limits, with a 30-second grace period, used in middle and high schools across the U.S.
A memorized, persuasive or inspiring speech you write yourself. Up to 10 minutes.
Practice with: Original Oratory · PersuasiveTeach the audience about a topic, often with visual aids. Up to 10 minutes.
Practice with: Informative · ExpositoryAnswer a current-events question after 30 minutes of prep. Up to 7 minutes.
Practice with: ExtemporaneousSpeak on a surprise prompt; 7 minutes total for prep and speaking.
Practice with: ImpromptuPerform a speech that was given by someone else, with your own introduction.
Practice with: DeclamationExplain a topic clearly, without arguing a side, with visual aids.
Practice with: ExpositoryTell a story with expression, often on a theme.
Practice with: Storytelling · NarrativePerform published literature with an introduction that frames the theme.
Practice with: Poetry Recitation · Oral InterpretationPerform a cutting from a published work, playing every character. Up to 10 minutes.
Practice with: Oral Interpretation (start with public-domain works)Lincoln-Douglas, Public Forum, Policy, Congressional, World Schools and Big Questions.
Practice with: Debate Constructive · CampaignThe Speaker’s Playbook
Learn from the best.
Ten proven ideas from great speakers, researchers and coaches.
Tell listeners what they’ll gain in the first 30 seconds.
Patrick Winston, MIT “How to Speak”Repeat your big idea, and number your points so listeners can catch up.
Patrick Winston, MITA three-step structure for answers on the spot.
Matt Abrahams, Stanford Graduate School of BusinessSaying “I am excited” before a speech made people more persuasive in a Harvard study.
Alison Wood Brooks, Harvard Business SchoolWin trust, touch hearts and use clear logic.
Aristotle, RhetoricThe Gettysburg Address is 272 words: about two minutes.
Abraham Lincoln, 1863Great talks build one idea, step by step.
TED talk guidanceSpeak like a conversation with one person.
FDR’s “fireside chats”Aim for about 130–160 words a minute; pause after key lines.
Speech coaches’ common guidanceWatch yourself, fix one thing, practice again.
Toastmasters-style evaluationAt a glance
How the Speech Club works.
A free speech club: build your speech, practice it with a teleprompter and recording, and earn badges.
Clear speaking builds confidence in class, interviews, college and every career.
Students from kindergarten to Grade 12. Younger children can practice with a parent.
Ten minutes a day, before a class presentation, a contest, an election or an interview.
Pick your grade and speech type, build the script, practice out loud, then submit a recording for a coach-verified badge.
Disclaimer: This information is for informational purposes only. 35 speech types follow the speaking-and-listening expectations used in U.S. schools (Common Core SL standards and state equivalents) and common speech-and-debate events. Model speeches are original Global Yuva examples; historic speeches and poems are in the public domain. Playbook ideas are summarized from public sources; Global Yuva is not affiliated with or endorsed by MIT, Stanford, Harvard, TED, Toastmasters or the National Speech & Debate Association. Recordings stay on this device unless a signed-in student submits one with parent or guardian permission; submissions are private to Global Yuva coaches and the linked parent, and are deleted after 12 months. The live word coach uses your browser’s speech service.