How to Speak How to Listen

By: Mortimer J. Adler

Narrated by: Harold N. Cropp

Practical information for learning how to speak and listen more effectively.

With over half a million copies in print of his “living classic” How to Read a Book in print, intellectual, philosopher, and academic Mortimer J. Adler set out to write an accompanying volume on speaking and listening, offering the impressive depth of knowledge and accessible panache that distinguished his first book.

In How to Speak How to Listen, Adler explains the fundamental principles of communicating through speech, with sections on such specialized presentations as the sales talk, the lecture, and question-and-answer sessions and advice on effective listening and learning by discussion.

©1997 Mortimer J. Adler (P)2021 Simon & Schuster Audio

Good book

I’m not much for words, but I enjoyed listening to the book
Buy it you’ll like it

Love it for its practicality and applications

Pretty similar to "How to Read a Book" as well; conceptualizing speaking and listening into sections of uninterrupted speech, silent listening, and two-way talk gave this title the organization that made it profitable and pleasurable for me.

Let's go!

Love Mortimer! can't stop talking about him to my family, lol. We can all give our attention to this wise contributor to society. We can reclaim our education, we can train ourselves in the lost arts of thinking, speaking and most importantly, listening!

something everyone needs, but might not want

We spend so little time on communication; this is your upgrade to better communication.

Pretentious, useless

Don’t listen if you want practical guidance on conversation. It’s a pretentiously presented deep dive into lofty speech patterns using archaic examples of literary writing or historic speeches. This would be recommended reading for a literary or persuasive speech class in college, but the title chosen doesn’t represent the content. I couldn’t stand to listen more than 30 minutes.