How to Stop Sounding Robotic: Use Stress and Intonation to Sound Natural in English
Video Overview & Insights
If you sometimes feel like you sound robotic, scripted, or just… not yourself when you speak English, this is for you. Remember, communication and general pronunciation is always more important than the accent you want.
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I’ll show you how to fix the "google translate" problem by using stress, intonation, and pausing to sound more natural, human, and confident.
0:00 Introduction
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1:00 Basic Sentence Stress in a Short Sentence
1:40 Adding Basic Intonation
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2:30 Intonation to Add additional Information
3:45 How to Build Trust in Your Communication
Going to …. Oh Elliot that’s music to my ears.
5:00 Stress, Intonation, Pausing and Perfecting
5:30 Talking to Carrie for Practice Purposes?
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6:00 Bringing it All Together
6:45 How to Sound FRIENDLY and HUMAN with Intonation
Good work, dear teacher
7:40 How to Practice Stress and Intonation
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very useful information, I notice when native speakers speak, sometimes they apply a rising tone to the the last word before a comma , but sometimes they simply use a falling tone(as what I can hear?) to the the last word before a comma, which is very confusing to me, can you explain ?
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