A brief summary for everyone: End of statement - falling Unfinished statement - rising New information - falling Old information - rising Questions: 1. You dont know the answer - falling 2. You think you know the answer - rising 3. Comment questions - falling 4. Criticizing questions - rising 5. Suggestions(falling/rising) A. Rising - sounds like a real question(indirect and hesitant) B. Falling - doesnt sound like a question(confident and direct) Emotions: 1.Surprised - rising tone longer 2.Annoyed - lower tones 3. Excited - start to finish has higher tone 4. Doubt - rising tone 5. Sarcastic - falling tone
I'm a native English speaker browsing the videos for fun and I think the most important thing about intonation in English is context. All of these examples sound very similar because it's the situation they're used in as well as body language that changes the meaning. If it's obvious that you're mad at someone and you offer help, it will be seen as hateful/sarcastic. If someone is struggling and you calmly say "do you need some help," it will be seen as you really offering.
Agree 100%. I'm a native English speaker and during the last part with the 5 'Did you' questions, it was impossible for me to differentiate them accurately without context.
hello, may i make friends with you? My speaking english and spoken english is very poor, i really want to change it. But i didn't konw how to do it for a long time, i really want to find native speaker to help me./cryyyy
This helped me so much to study for an exam. In Spanish intonation is really important too, we express different feelings and show different opinions with the intonation of our voice and sarcasm is one of the most evidents.
1:22 PART ONE: Different Patterns of Intonation. 4:41 PART TWO: New Information vs. Old information. 8:04 PART THREE: Intonation in Questions. 13:19 PART FIVE: Using Intonation to Express Different Emotions.
Thank you! What a great job to explain what I’ve never learned before!!! I didn’t learn how to speak English until I was 30 as a native Taiwanese, and when I said “You are welcome!” from genuine appreciation, my husband said I sounded sarcastic! 😖 He said I should have said “Welcome” in different intonation. Honestly, I still can’t tell the differences when you said the same word with five different emotions, but I’ll start to work on it. Thanks!
For chinese, different intonation usually stands for completely differnet words, so intonation only changes the meanings for very short sentences in rare statuations.
@@OrchestratedChicaneryDid you watch until the end of the video? (Falling-rising haha) They: "We have a question for you: Is intonation in your language the same as English? Let us know in the comments because we are curious." I read this because I am also curious.
I'm here as an native English speaker because my friend (language exchange partner) asked me what rising-falling intonation means in English. I tried to come up with some sort of explanation, but it didn't go well. I just use these tones subconsciously, I've never had to actually think about them before 😂😂
hello, may i make friends with you? My speaking english and spoken english is very poor, i really want to change it. But i didn't konw how to do it for a long time, i really want to find native speaker to help me./cryyyy
Hii Oxford English.. Lots of respect and support from me . In this Intonation class I didn't understand kae' s voice pitch, means at everytime I felt the same pitch tone in the whole class. I clearly understood the pich and variations of intonation by the other sir, who is co-host with kae. Thank you.
Funny how many young people finish most of their sentences with a rising intonation thinking that it's cool. They sound as if they're not sure what they're saying. I hope this trend won't last long. Your video is excellent I recommended it to my sts. Another thing worth mentioning is that the more you increase the difference in pitch between the low and the high point of whichever combination of rising and falling tone, the more you sound posh.
For Oxford online English..I finish my ielts exam .im waiting for my results.im gladly to tell u the all videos and instructions are really helpful for me..Thanks
Yes. It is similar to my language which is known as Amharic, It is widely spoken language in Ethiopia and it is the official language of the country. It is the only language that has its own alphabets in Africa. Unlike English language, the alphabets represents the uttered sounds. There are not such a thing as silent sounds in Amharic words. Hence writing in Amharic language is less difficult and tricky than in English language. Even Native speakers of English language make mistake in spelling some English words. Coming back to my point, it is interesting for me to know that the meaning of most intonation patterns of English are similar to those of Amharic.
It's difficult for me to apply the intonation in my English speaking now, but I believe If I keep on practicing, I will be getting used to it! Thank you
English teacher - this stuff is pretty fascinating and super high level - bravo to all the students to hung in there, and picked up on subtle things native speakers do to add personality or emotion to their speech :)
As a native English speaker, I never realized English was a tonal language. I use all of these tones every day, but never notice. It just comes naturally.
English is not a tonal language. Every human carries attitude when speaking. This is normal no matter what language they are speaking. Tonal language means different pitches change the meaning of a word. The pitch patterns in a sentence presented in this video indicate attitude. The meaning of the sentences remain the same.
I'm happy to learn more English intonation. I'm a teacher and when I was at thé university I love langages. Thank you to much for this lesson . I 'll allow you in your TH-cam chanel .
Intonation is the most difficult part of English for me. I wish to learn it thoroughly to master it like the native English speakers. Is there one-on-one intonation course?
Thanks for sharing your comment. Our certified English teachers can help you with online classes. You can book a trial lesson here: www.oxfordonlineenglish.com/book-first-class.
I found that some intonation in English are similar to Vietnamese. We also use many Intonation in spoken in order to express different emotions. This video is really helpful. Thank you so much for your lessons. Love from Viet Nam
Thanks for the video. Just a tip, if you really want to hear the intention properly, then reduce the speed of the video to .75 you can clearly hear the difference.
Today one of my students asked about pronunciation of a question and answer, but it was hard to explain to her the intonation of the answer. This is definitely one of those things that if you don't think about it, it is hard to explain to non-Native speakers.
Oh my gosh, I've been struggling to find a tutorial about intonation, and here I have it! Thank you a lot for the splendid work. I also like the fact that you constantly switch between GA and RP.
Yes...iam from India and my mother tongue is Telugu. In my mother tongue too we have same intonation as in English language. Thank you so much to Oxford and Oxford teachers for this excellent lessons and delivering them indetail...
Hello andi...Nadi telugu ee😄 s..koncham similar ga undi but still confusing ga undi..but naku British rp accent nerchukovali ani chala istam undi.. but total confusing
@@Miniflower25 oh... Hii andi nice to meet you. British accent related songs, movies, comedy shows chudandi, vinandi, practice cheyandi.. Hope this will help you🤗
Great contents, I thought there is no common rule for intonation in English, but now I know the basic pattern and how to differentiate new and old information using these patterns. In Chinese language, the intonation(s) of each word has been well defined in 4 tones (high/flat, rising, falling rising, falling), it is easier to follow the rule to pronounce each word. When putting words into sentence, the intonations might change a little according to different emotions.
Very informative video! Our language is Urdu , it is not stress timed language rather it is a syllable timed language. So to stress an idea we prolong the words instead of stressing them.
In American English we have been told that in question tags when we already have a sense of the answer and we are checking our information, we have falling intonation and when we are really asking we have a rising intonation. Interestingly, the pattern there is just the opposite.
Thank you for this very informative video. Intonation is quite different in Kenyan English. I'll soon do a paper on it. Dr. Itumo-Kenyatta University-Kenya
How interesting! Because my mother tongue doesn't have clear and apparent intonation like English, it feels like I become an actor when I try to copy the intonation
Thank you! It's helpful. In my language, there is intonation for various meaning but I can't tell whether it is similar to English or not now. I need more study.
Thank you for your information. I already knew British English intonation, but I didn't understand it before. Your expression is very clear, and it's helpful for me.
It's been so useful. Unfortunately, I think that using intonation naturally would be possible if we set our native language apart for some time and go to an English speaking country so that we get used to using intonation without doing any effort, but it is worth practicing it on our own, though.
My phonetics teacher says that intonation used in Uruguay is exactly the same as is used in English. But I began to have my doubts about it. What I personally find so hard to do is to be aware of my own music when I speak L1 so as to compare it with L2. I don`t think that intonation is the same for both of them.
Thanks for the information. I want to know the difference between expressive intonation, somewhat expressive intonation and flat intonation. I searched for intonation just to figure out what specific thing is unpleasant in my android smartphone's Text-to-speech engine. Though I think I get a productive and informative channel on TH-cam to improve my spoken English with great learning and speaking practice as a bonus.
Intonation is one of my favorite things to explore! If you are still interested in understanding intonation, you might enjoy my channel! You are welcome to check it out! 🌞
Thanks you Teacher kae and Daniel OOE. My answer is Not, which you ask at last in your intonation lesson video. I think Intonation is different from languages. Languages is just a text and intonation is a sound of scences. It's a words(text) pronounce Fluency. We are expresse sounds with words what our scence.
4:01 For example: I live in Madrid, but I was born in Canada. 4:05 She’s a lawyer, although she isn’t working at the moment. 4:12 We might be a bit late, because I don’t finish work until seven.
Usefull video, in spanish we have similar rules on intonation. In south america (Uruguay-Argentina) we tend to talk with less intonation than the rest of latin américa and Spain.
Ale, our intonation patterns in Argentina are DIVERSE! If you have the time, please travel around our country and you'll discover the variety of intonation contours we use depending where we're from. In general terms we have these tones: Fall Rise Fall-rise not common Rise-fall Flat
Really helpful thank you! I realised communicate in England is more complicated than what I thought. :) In italian even if we use intonation patterns, we communicate a lot with our body language
I didn't expect intonation to be simple as it's what struggles me, but this lesson is way more complicated that I thought, probably need to refer back to this in the coming future...
It's not you; it is a complicated topic. This was the most difficult video I've written, and I realised while writing it that the topic is much more complex than I thought. In particular, there's a lot of flexibility, and different speakers will naturally use different patterns: e.g. US English speakers vs. UK English speakers. Treat the video as an introduction to concepts: if you start thinking about it and reflecting on your own intonation, that's a good place to start!
I love this channel, thank you !
I learned a lot from this channel in one day, than I did all my life till date.
Thanks for the kind comment, Pankaj!
I love their integration policy, the brunette girl was lovely!
13:19
10:44
8:04
4:38
1:22
me too!
What age children we can teach this method
Intonation is truly the trickiest one for non-native speakers.
Hello
Yeah. Agree.
and accent
Agree
Living in the country is the easiest way to learn it
I've been learning English for years and no one has taught me intonations, until this video did. Thank you so much! :D
It's taught at universities
A brief summary for everyone:
End of statement - falling
Unfinished statement - rising
New information - falling
Old information - rising
Questions:
1. You dont know the answer - falling
2. You think you know the answer - rising
3. Comment questions - falling
4. Criticizing questions - rising
5. Suggestions(falling/rising)
A. Rising - sounds like a real question(indirect and hesitant)
B. Falling - doesnt sound like a question(confident and direct)
Emotions:
1.Surprised - rising tone longer
2.Annoyed - lower tones
3. Excited - start to finish has higher tone
4. Doubt - rising tone
5. Sarcastic - falling tone
You're great!! thank you very much
Thx homie
thanks
Thanks
You are great
I'm a native English speaker browsing the videos for fun and I think the most important thing about intonation in English is context. All of these examples sound very similar because it's the situation they're used in as well as body language that changes the meaning. If it's obvious that you're mad at someone and you offer help, it will be seen as hateful/sarcastic. If someone is struggling and you calmly say "do you need some help," it will be seen as you really offering.
Agree 100%. I'm a native English speaker and during the last part with the 5 'Did you' questions, it was impossible for me to differentiate them accurately without context.
I really appreciate it❤❤❤
In many languages too…
thank you❤
hello, may i make friends with you? My speaking english and spoken english is very poor, i really want to change it. But i didn't konw how to do it for a long time, i really want to find native speaker to help me./cryyyy
This helped me so much to study for an exam. In Spanish intonation is really important too, we express different feelings and show different opinions with the intonation of our voice and sarcasm is one of the most evidents.
1:22 PART ONE: Different Patterns of Intonation.
4:41 PART TWO: New Information vs. Old information.
8:04 PART THREE: Intonation in Questions.
13:19 PART FIVE: Using Intonation to Express Different Emotions.
Thank you very much
The last one is four not five
I need to watch this video again and again several times until intonation is not a problem to me anymore. Thank you so much for the class!
Me too
try to watch a different video on intonation
@@hatehypocrisy1 I will try. Thank you for the tip!
Thank you! What a great job to explain what I’ve never learned before!!! I didn’t learn how to speak English until I was 30 as a native Taiwanese, and when I said “You are welcome!” from genuine appreciation, my husband said I sounded sarcastic! 😖 He said I should have said “Welcome” in different intonation. Honestly, I still can’t tell the differences when you said the same word with five different emotions, but I’ll start to work on it. Thanks!
For chinese, different intonation usually stands for completely differnet words, so intonation only changes the meanings for very short sentences in rare statuations.
Great, but we are learning English through this video not Chinese.
@@OrchestratedChicaneryDid you watch until the end of the video? (Falling-rising haha)
They: "We have a question for you: Is intonation in your language the same as English?
Let us know in the comments because we are curious."
I read this because I am also curious.
Try to feel it in 卧槽
I’m a non-english speaker. We have a Filipino language. It is hard for me to adjust and learn this on my own. This is a huge help for me. ♥️
I'm here as an native English speaker because my friend (language exchange partner) asked me what rising-falling intonation means in English. I tried to come up with some sort of explanation, but it didn't go well. I just use these tones subconsciously, I've never had to actually think about them before 😂😂
hello, may i make friends with you? My speaking english and spoken english is very poor, i really want to change it. But i didn't konw how to do it for a long time, i really want to find native speaker to help me./cryyyy
8:43 let me add my two groats:
Falling tone = question for information (=wh questions)
Rising tone = question for confirmation (=yes/no questions)
Also,
2:36 rising
2:43 falling
2:51 rising-falling
2:57 falling-rising
@@Kriegerdammerung Hi! Her first "where" is said with a high fall actually.
@@MMLe2012 Thank you! I heard the same!!!! I was going to suggest this clip to my students and... crap.
You are right!!!
Hii Oxford English.. Lots of respect and support from me . In this Intonation class I didn't understand kae' s voice pitch, means at everytime I felt the same pitch tone in the whole class. I clearly understood the pich and variations of intonation by the other sir, who is co-host with kae.
Thank you.
Funny how many young people finish most of their sentences with a rising intonation thinking that it's cool. They sound as if they're not sure what they're saying. I hope this trend won't last long. Your video is excellent I recommended it to my sts. Another thing worth mentioning is that the more you increase the difference in pitch between the low and the high point of whichever combination of rising and falling tone, the more you sound posh.
For Oxford online English..I finish my ielts exam .im waiting for my results.im gladly to tell u the all videos and instructions are really helpful for me..Thanks
Thanks for the comment, Leena! Good luck with your IELTS results!
Yes. It is similar to my language which is known as Amharic, It is widely spoken language in Ethiopia and it is the official language of the country. It is the only language that has its own alphabets in Africa. Unlike English language, the alphabets represents the uttered sounds. There are not such a thing as silent sounds in Amharic words. Hence writing in Amharic language is less difficult and tricky than in English language. Even Native speakers of English language make mistake in spelling some English words. Coming back to my point, it is interesting for me to know that the meaning of most intonation patterns of English are similar to those of Amharic.
It's difficult for me to apply the intonation in my English speaking now, but I believe If I keep on practicing, I will be getting used to it! Thank you
English teacher - this stuff is pretty fascinating and super high level - bravo to all the students to hung in there, and picked up on subtle things native speakers do to add personality or emotion to their speech :)
As a native English speaker, I never realized English was a tonal language.
I use all of these tones every day, but never notice. It just comes naturally.
English is not a tonal language.
Every human carries attitude when speaking. This is normal no matter what language they are speaking.
Tonal language means different pitches change the meaning of a word. The pitch patterns in a sentence presented in this video indicate attitude. The meaning of the sentences remain the same.
I'm happy to learn more English intonation.
I'm a teacher and when I was at thé university I love langages.
Thank you to much for this lesson . I 'll allow you in your TH-cam chanel .
Intonation is the most difficult part of English for me. I wish to learn it thoroughly to master it like the native English speakers.
Is there one-on-one intonation course?
Thanks for sharing your comment. Our certified English teachers can help you with online classes. You can book a trial lesson here: www.oxfordonlineenglish.com/book-first-class.
I think the trickiest is STRESSES and it's intricacies
I found that some intonation in English are similar to Vietnamese. We also use many Intonation in spoken in order to express different emotions.
This video is really helpful. Thank you so much for your lessons. Love from Viet Nam
Intonation is found in every language. No human being talks like a robot.
Vietnamese rises voice at the end of every sentence lmao.
Thank you for making the video. In my language, there aren't such diversified intonations. And when we do, the intonation is normally very slightly.
Thanks for the video. Just a tip, if you really want to hear the intention properly, then reduce the speed of the video to .75 you can clearly hear the difference.
Thanks 👍. Helpful for non native English speakers like many of us
Thank you so much! This is very useful for me! I am struggling with English pronunciation. I hope I can improve my English!
Daniel and Kae are they nice brilliant teachers I've ever met. Thanks for great job.
Thanks for the support, Adim!
@@Oxfordonlineenglish1Kae is still teaching ? I would like to see more video lessons with her. Thanks for an eventual answer ! ❤
I almost don't hear differences.
With Kae...I agree with you
I do, I watch English Tvseries a lot. The tone of the sentences are different.
sameeee
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Dude. I'm a native english speaker and I hardly heard the difference.
Wow.. this channel is perfect for me, specially i need to enhance my english communication skills. Thank guys..
Today one of my students asked about pronunciation of a question and answer, but it was hard to explain to her the intonation of the answer. This is definitely one of those things that if you don't think about it, it is hard to explain to non-Native speakers.
Oh my gosh, I've been struggling to find a tutorial about intonation, and here I have it! Thank you a lot for the splendid work. I also like the fact that you constantly switch between GA and RP.
Do you try to speak a British-style English?
Yes...iam from India and my mother tongue is Telugu. In my mother tongue too we have same intonation as in English language.
Thank you so much to Oxford and Oxford teachers for this excellent lessons and delivering them indetail...
Hello andi...Nadi telugu ee😄 s..koncham similar ga undi but still confusing ga undi..but naku British rp accent nerchukovali ani chala istam undi.. but total confusing
@@Miniflower25 oh... Hii andi nice to meet you. British accent related songs, movies, comedy shows chudandi, vinandi, practice cheyandi.. Hope this will help you🤗
@@srujanamirthivada2737
Yeah I will try,, may be time padutundhemo natural ga ravataniki consistent ga try cheyali..Nd Nice to meet you too😊
Very praiseworthy. Respected Sir. Your voice is very clear & sweet.
Thanks for watching and sharing the comment, Vikasraj!
Great sir
I love learning English with you OOE!
Didn't know I've been speaking so flatly until now. Cheers guys!
Both teachers are excellent! Thank You
Great contents, I thought there is no common rule for intonation in English, but now I know the basic pattern and how to differentiate new and old information using these patterns. In Chinese language, the intonation(s) of each word has been well defined in 4 tones (high/flat, rising, falling rising, falling), it is easier to follow the rule to pronounce each word. When putting words into sentence, the intonations might change a little according to different emotions.
Very informative video! Our language is Urdu , it is not stress timed language rather it is a syllable timed language. So to stress an idea we prolong the words instead of stressing them.
It's a great video! I'm from Brazil and here we use intonation a lot. Most of it is similar of the English.
I am from Burma, next to Thailand. It is very useful for us because our language is too flat. When we speak,we have no stress word or intonation.
It is really useful and thank you. I have never paid my attention for intonation when speaking English.
Thanks for watching, Lathika, and glad you found the lesson useful!
In American English we have been told that in question tags when we already have a sense of the answer and we are checking our information, we have falling intonation and when we are really asking we have a rising intonation. Interestingly, the pattern there is just the opposite.
I have been struggling a lot the intonation for a long time. Thank you so much!
this is my first time here, and it is really important to my work
Yes they are the same.
Thanks, you are brilliant
Thank you for this very informative video. Intonation is quite different in Kenyan English. I'll soon do a paper on it. Dr. Itumo-Kenyatta University-Kenya
How interesting! Have you finished your paper? And is it published some place where I could read it?
Ok im very glad i found this channel now i can learn more about english and other rules in english sentences
How interesting! Because my mother tongue doesn't have clear and apparent intonation like English, it feels like I become an actor when I try to copy the intonation
Thank you! It's helpful. In my language, there is intonation for various meaning but I can't tell whether it is similar to English or not now. I need more study.
Thank you for your information. I already knew British English intonation, but I didn't understand it before. Your expression is very clear, and it's helpful for me.
Thnxxx A lot to both of u...
Today is my exam... So plz pray for me.
YOU TEACHERS ARE AWESOME...........
Daniel is WONDERFUL.THANK YOU
Thank you! Intonation is really a chanllenge for me! Your great video is helpful!
It's been so useful. Unfortunately, I think that using intonation naturally would be possible if we set our native language apart for some time and go to an English speaking country so that we get used to using intonation without doing any effort, but it is worth practicing it on our own, though.
My phonetics teacher says that intonation used in Uruguay is exactly the same as is used in English. But I began to have my doubts about it. What I personally find so hard to do is to be aware of my own music when I speak L1 so as to compare it with L2. I don`t think that intonation is the same for both of them.
Thanks to my tutor Ms. Praizy for recommending this video. God Bless😇
It's surprising to me to hear this types of communication in English
Thank you so much sir
I admired received pronounciation and this one is a big help for me to become fluent in british english. :)
Thank you . I guess I will watch it many times !
Thanks a lot for your lesson, it's useful. It has helped me to know more about intonation.
great efforts indeed.Hats off to the whole team.
Thank you, Ram! Glad you enjoyed it!
It is an AWESOME LESSON! Thank you so much!
Great lession!
The intonation in Colombia is the same, in my opinion.
Thank you,🙏🙏
This type of videos are always helpful to me. I wish to learn Intonation seriously and deeply so as to sound naturally.
Thank you both trainers!
So glad you found the lesson useful! Thanks for watching!
My native language isn't English but I know easily, Thank you so muchhhh intonation
Thanks from Bangladesh 🇧🇩
Thanks from Uganda
Thanks for the information.
I want to know the difference between expressive intonation, somewhat expressive intonation and flat intonation.
I searched for intonation just to figure out what specific thing is unpleasant in my android smartphone's Text-to-speech engine.
Though I think I get a productive and informative channel on TH-cam to improve my spoken English with great learning and speaking practice as a bonus.
Intonation is one of my favorite things to explore! If you are still interested in understanding intonation, you might enjoy my channel! You are welcome to check it out! 🌞
@@DawnPeacock Okay, thanks.
Thanks for the audio video lessons. That's so helpfull
For us. Aurangabad Maharashtra India
This video is very instructive Thank you for uploading this kind of information
Excellent lesson!!!!
thanks it helped me a lot on my yesterday exam.
Excellent teaching ❤both of you
I am watching from INDIA🇮🇳
Excellent teaching, easy understand and practice method,thanks
Thanks you Teacher kae and Daniel OOE.
My answer is Not, which you ask at last in your intonation lesson video.
I think Intonation is different from languages. Languages is just a text and intonation is a sound of scences. It's a words(text) pronounce Fluency. We are expresse sounds with words what our scence.
Thanks!!! I have a final exam and this is exactly what I need to practice.
Good luck
Thank you for your useful video!
Nice lession.
Thank you.
This video was really helpful . It teaches in a very easy and interactive manner. Both of the teachers are doing excellent work.
Excellent, Oxford online English.
Thanks for the comment!
Thank you very much dear teacher's. You have great job keep going.
You're welcome, Asia. Thanks for watching!
4:01
For example: I live in Madrid, but I was born in Canada.
4:05
She’s a lawyer, although she isn’t working at the moment.
4:12
We might be a bit late, because I don’t finish work until seven.
Excellent class!!! Thanks a lot Teachers
Best eng learning channel
This video is helpful for teachers too.
This has been very instructive. Thanks 😊
Thank you very much for your support
Thanks a million, it's really helpful for me 😊
It's really helpful. Thank you. I think in my language we've the same intonation!
Where are U from?
@@MehmetYlmaz-zh6px That's what I was wondering! But he didn't answer you...let's see if he answers me!
Where are you from? I'm curious!
It is effective lesson for me and I'm a regular follower of ur lessons.
Glad you liked it, Sabia! Thanks for watching!
Usefull video, in spanish we have similar rules on intonation. In south america (Uruguay-Argentina) we tend to talk with less intonation than the rest of latin américa and Spain.
What do you think of the way cordobeses speak?
Ale, our intonation patterns in Argentina are DIVERSE! If you have the time, please travel around our country and you'll discover the variety of intonation contours we use depending where we're from. In general terms we have these tones:
Fall
Rise
Fall-rise not common
Rise-fall
Flat
really, thank you, ♥
i'm from egypt and and while i was srurfing the internet i found this vedio by chance
tysm guys when reading out loud i felt like it sounded unnatural but now I know what I did wrong and am working on improving my intonation. :)
It was very useful thank you🌷
We're happy it was useful for you!
Great lesson 💖🇰🇭
Thank you so much for this useful lesson .
Thanks for watching!
Thank you so much. Great video.
Really helpful thank you! I realised communicate in England is more complicated than what I thought. :) In italian even if we use intonation patterns, we communicate a lot with our body language
You are life saver thanks . Tommorow is my exam ..
I didn't expect intonation to be simple as it's what struggles me, but this lesson is way more complicated that I thought, probably need to refer back to this in the coming future...
It's not you; it is a complicated topic. This was the most difficult video I've written, and I realised while writing it that the topic is much more complex than I thought. In particular, there's a lot of flexibility, and different speakers will naturally use different patterns: e.g. US English speakers vs. UK English speakers. Treat the video as an introduction to concepts: if you start thinking about it and reflecting on your own intonation, that's a good place to start!