What is Toastmasters International?

1. What is Toastmasters?
2. Is this just a group for people in the USA or for people who speak English?
3. How is Toastmasters organized?
4. Where can I find a club?
5. Do I have to ask permission before attending a meeting of a club in my area?
6. Is Toastmasters a social or drinking organization in some regard?
7. What happens at a meeting?
8. What's a "prepared speech?"
9. What speech projects are there for me to work on?
10. What is "Table Topics?"
11. What is Evaluation?
12. What's all this emphasis on time limits?
13. Why all this structure to the meeting?
14. I'm scared to death of speaking! Why should I look into Toastmasters?
15. How is Toastmasters more beneficial than other forms of speaking improvement?
16. Where should I go for further information?
17. Can I send mail to Toastmasters officials via the Internet?

Membership in Toastmasters International

1. How does one go about joining Toastmasters?
2. How much does membership cost?
3. Can I belong to more than one club?
4. If I belong to more than one club, do I have to pay full dues for each?
5. Are my dues tax deductible?
6. What do I get for my dues?
7. What do I get for my New Member fee?
8. If I want to drop out of Toastmasters after joining, what do I do?
9. How receptive are clubs to new members?
10. If I join, will they make me speak right away?

Educational Advancement in Toastmasters International

1. What should my main objective be as a new Toastmasters member?
2. What does CTM stand for?
3. What do I have to do to earn a CTM?
4. Do I have to give all the speeches at Toastmasters club meetings?
5. Do I have to work through the C&L manual in the order the projects are given?
6. When I finish the CTM what happens?
7. What's the ATM?
8. What do I have to do to get an ATM Bronze?
9. What advanced manuals are available?
10. Other than the CTM and ATM, what educational opportunities are there in Toastmasters?
11. What happens after I earn an ATM Bronze?
12. What are the ATM Silver and ATM Gold?
13. What are the CL and AL awards?
14. What is a DTM?
15. What happens after I've earned the DTM?
16. Is there anything else?
17. Have you considered making a "speech bank" of good speeches presented by Toastmasters members available for gopher or FTP?

Leadership and Organization

1. What leadership opportunities within the club are open to me as a member of Toastmasters?
2. What leadership opportunities are open to me OUTSIDE the club?
3. What is an Area?
4. What is a Division?
5. What is a District?
6. Whoa! That sounds complicated!
7. How do I get to be a District officer?
8. What levels are beyond the District?
9. What's the World Convention?
10. So the Board of Directors and the President and Vice Presidents make all the decisions about dues and so forth?
11. What do I get for serving as an officer?

Toastmasters International Speech Contests

1. What's all this about speech contests?
2. How do you pick the winners?
3. Who gets to compete?
4. When do the contests take place?
5. What do I get if I win a contest?
6. My District has different rules for the various speech contests. Is this permitted?
7. Hey, what about the Debate Contest or the Interpretive Reading Contest or some other contest you didn't mention?

Other

1. Hey!  I noticed a mistake in one of these FAQs.  Who do I tell?

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