12. American Intonation: What They Don’t Teach You In School
The InFluency Podcast
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The patterns of our native tongue are different from English and sometimes contradictory to the patterns of English. If you're applying external intonation and stressing things, let's say at the beginning rather than the end then what happens is that you end up stressing the wrong words. Although you know how to construct the sentence, the words are accurate. You don't make any grammar mistakes,. But if you don't distinguish the right words, if you don’t stress the right words...then you become unclear. Then people may get something that is a little different from what you mean. So understanding your patterns and listening to how native speakers speak really helps you understand how English should be spoken. It
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