How do I get comfortable speaking up in an English meeting?

Speak in the first ten minutes, on something small. Keep one sentence ready for the item you care about and enter with a question, not an opinion: it cannot be wrong and it buys you a turn.

A two-minute pre-call drill removes most of the nerves. Before you join, say the item name and your first sentence out loud twice, and write the one number or date you might need on a sticky note beside the camera. Joining ninety seconds early also gives you a small, low-stakes turn: greeting each person by name, which puts your voice in the room before the agenda starts and makes the first real sentence less of an event.

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