Public Speaking

No doubt, there are many great people like Vladimir Nabokov who think like geniuses, write like distinguished authors, and speak like children. These people are excused, for many factors normally lead to their inability to speak openly before the public, such as timidity and lack of courage. However, the fact that Moroccan ministers a...nd other senior officials can not speak eloquently and openly on TV has always been a mystery to me. At first, I thought that they can write better than they can speak or that they think like geniuses when they lay their hands on their work. Knowing that this is not the case, the conclusion I have reached then is that these officials are not well-educated enough so as to be able to produce a series of meaningful sentences while the floor is theirs. For me, it does not matter when you speak like a child and write like a distinguished author as is the case with the Russian author. Some Moroccan teachers of Arabic can not speak as fluently as Egyptian children do. The same applies to some other language teachers. It is not because these teachers are used to writing more than speaking, nor is it because they think like geniuses and it is only when they start to speak do they appear like children. I have no idea why Moroccan ministers, professors, officials, etc. are not consistent when they speak. For some time, they use some phrases in Classical Arabic, then they move to speak Moroccan Arabic for the rest of their talk. When they feel they are at a loss, they resort to their mother tongue, and when they feel there is a need to appear 'professional', they start to speak Classical Arabic for a very short time. My point is that when the nature of the speaker's personality affects their speaking manner, they are excused, for they just in need of practice. But, to see a Moroccan minister and teacher unable to speak the language they have to speak to address citizens and students respectively makes one dare to wonder about their way to these positions.