Fluency in gibberish aids fluency in English!

​The classes are going great.   Even though improvisation is all about interaction, which is difficult to emulate in the ZOOM room, we’re discovering the stuff that works online.
 
The kids had so much fun last week, I even heard some parents laughing in the background.  Especially when they were expressing themselves in gibberish. Gibberish is improvisers made up language.  Gibberish can sound like a fake foreign language or a pixie like language and for some its bits of half English and sound effects that will with more practice guide them to the land of nonsense speak. 
 
Last week they had to talk about their frustrations of lockdown in gibberish, it was hilarious!  Very expressive arms going, faces animated as they jumped up and down and threw themselves into speaking gobbledygook.  This is what gibberish is about, using our whole body and letting the nonsense words pour out in a free flow of sounds.  This release of vocal expression with emotion feeds back to the fluency of language, unlocking our voices and giving us permission to express ourselves.  Gibberish is great because we don’t have to bother with getting tangled up in thoughts.  We can take the brain out of the picture and let our mouth and our words make friends as we become fluent in the free flow of language.   
 
We don’t have to think everything through first and make sure it’s perfect but instead jump in and trust ourselves to come up with something, anything!  That’s when we laugh the hardest, we’ve just totally surprised ourselves, we’re genius creators!