The Art of Conversation: Twelve Golden Rules: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Art of Conversation: Twelve Golden Rules, credited to Josephine Turck Baker, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of The Art of Conversation: Twelve Golden Rules by Josephine Turck Baker. Read in English as a dramatic reading. Many of us find it challenging to speak to other people, for various reasons. Some of us are afraid of being called a bore. Others are worried that we will be accused of hogging attention. Many of us simply don't know what to talk about. This book is an entertaining and enlightening manual that may be able to help. Through a series of twelve dialogues between a man and a woman, we are introduced to twelve "golden rules" that will help us navigate the waters of interpersonal communication. (Summary by Devorah Allen) He: Read by KevinS She: Read by Devorah Allen

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Art of Conversation: Twelve Golden Rules
• Author credits: Josephine Turck Baker
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 12
• Listed recording duration: 1:05:31

Catalogue topics

• speech
• dialogue
• conversation
• tact
• dramatic reading

Track guide

1. 01 - Golden Rule Number 1: Avoid unnecessary details. — 5:11
2. 02 - Golden Rule Number 2: Do not ask question number two until number one has been answered. — 4:23
3. 03 - Golden Rule Number 3: Do not interrupt another while he is speaking. — 7:19
4. 04 - Golden Rule Number 4: Do not contradict another, especially when the subject under discussion is of trivial importance. — 4:15
5. 05 - Golden Rule Number 5: Do not do all the talking; give your tired listener a chance. — 5:34
6. 06 - Golden Rule Number 6: Be not continually the hero of your own story; and, on the other hand, do not leave your story without a hero. — 5:18
7. 07 - Golden Rule Number 7: Choose subjects of mutual interest. — 5:24
8. 08 - Golden Rule Number 8: Be a good listener. — 7:25
9. 09 - Golden Rule Number 9: Make your speech in harmony with your surroundings. — 4:38
10. 10 - Golden Rule Number 10: Do not exaggerate. — 5:15
11. 11 - Golden Rule Number 11: Indulge occasionally in a relevant quotation, but do not garble it. — 3:58
12. 12 - Golden Rule Number 12: Cultivate tact. — 6:51

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