People draw conclusions about others from the way they speak One of the most powerful weapons that everyone has is an ability to speak, to express one’s mind. With the help of the words everybody can build their social image, represent yourself and impact on other people. Obviously, people’s opinion on others could be influenced by manners and speech habits they have. Different people speak differently – it’s the fundamental truth. Social class, nation, age, interests, mentality – all these things expressed in usual everyday talks. Let’s look on British history of 20th century. Comparing the accents and pronunciation of British aristocracy and working class people, you could draw that the way how they speak is totally different. Received pronunciation and South London cockney are obviously mark their speakers and we even can suppose what do the speakers eat, what is their work and how they spend their free time just due to the way they speak. Nowadays, we often can realize the age of a speaker listening to his vocabulary and the quantity of slang words this person use. Influenced by American mass culture, videogames and the Internet, modern Russian teenagers use a lot of English loanwords comparing to seniors, who raised in Soviet culture and usually can’t understand English. But listening to one’s speech we can recognize not only about common things, but the personal habits and character too. Eye contact, smile, loud or quiet voice, grammar mistakes and ability to be a good conversationalist are all about our personality because the way one speak is the summary of his personal history, habits and character. Like, some people are believed to want to be heard and understood sometimes speak very fast (and frankly, they often have opposite effect because their fast speech is quite hard to understand). So, persons thinking on creating their own image definitely should care of the way they speak. And it’s not only about manner of conversation, but also about being attentive to one’s words.