تدريب Shadowing: American English Intonation | IELTS Topic: Describe an occasion when you lost something - تعلم التحدث بالإنجليزية عبر الفيديو

Hey, what's up?

It's Alex.

Today, I'd like to look at the pitch and accent changes in this short text about leaving my sunglasses on a bench.

Let's take a look.

It's funny.

The first thing that comes to mind, it's funny.

So here, it's, just like how it's de-stressed with the consonants and vowels, it's also de-stressed in terms of pitch.

It's funny.

The first thing that comes to mind.

So funny, that last syllable in funny has a tiny, tiny rise.

It's a low rise.

It's funny.

The first thing that comes to mind isn't something very expensive.

Isn't something very expensive.

So isn't and expensive are the key stress points for this section here.

Isn't something very expensive, but I just happen to have a very strong memory about it.

A very strong memory about it.

So we go up, very strong memory.

Memory is the key word here.

I happen to have a very strong memory about it.

Very strong, rises up.

We start kind of low with happen to have a very strong memory.

So from that low point into memory, we rise, rise, rise, fall.

A very strong memory about it.

And then about it, we're continuing the sentence, just a few more words, so we're going really kind of far down and relaxed with our tone here.

memory about it.

I was waiting for a bus once.

Waiting.

Bus.

Once.

So the function words here, for a, I was, those are reduced.

They're reduced in terms of pitch, spoken in a lower tone of voice.

I was waiting for a bus once, and I left some sunglasses on the bench.

And I left some sunglasses on the bench.

The point of my story here is sunglasses.

And I mean, where were the sunglasses?

They were on the bench.

So all that important information is stressed with my tone of voice.

I left some sunglasses on the bench.

Once I was in the bus and driving away, once I was in the bus and driving away, I'm telling the beginning of a sentence here, it's maybe a longer sentence,

so I'm going up with my voice.

Was in the bus and driving away, I saw them out the window and knew they were gone forever.

I saw them out the window and knew they were gone forever.

So listen to that kind of rolling rhythm.

I saw them out the window and knew they were gone forever.

It's not perfectly even, it's not a poem or a song, but there's still a rhythm to the speech by de-stressing the function words and stressing the important words.

I saw them out the window and knew they were gone forever.

It's been almost 15 years since then.

FIFTEEN YEARS!

I'm kind of going up with an even high tone of voice.

FIFTEEN YEARS!

To emphasize that it's been a long time.

It's been almost 15 years since then, and I still, and I still, still is the stress point,

that's the most important part of this part of the sentence.

I still try to take better care of my sunglasses.

So take better care, take better care of my sunglasses, care of my sunglasses.

I'm stressing care, but I can't go too far down because it's not the end of the sentence.

I can't say, I still try to take better care of my sunglasses, right?

We can't end the sentence early.

Care of my sunglasses, care of my sunglasses.

Sunglasses is another stressed point in the sentence, of my gets reduced, sunglasses.

And sunglasses is a very nice way to end a sentence, because the stress of the word is on the first syllable.

And then at the end of the sentence, we naturally reduce the pitch of the last few syllables, so it sounds very natural.

And I still try to take better care of my sunglasses.

It's funny, the first thing that comes to mind isn't something very expensive, but I just happen to have a very strong memory about it.

I was waiting for a bus once, and I left some sunglasses on the bench.

I was in the bus and driving away, I saw them out the window and knew they were gone forever.

It's been almost 15 years since then, and I still try to take better care of my sunglasses.

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التظليل الصوتي (Shadowing) تقنية تعلم لغة مدعومة علمياً، طُورت أصلاً لتدريب المترجمين الفوريين المحترفين. الطريقة بسيطة لكنها قوية: تستمع لصوت إنجليزي أصلي وتكرره فوراً بصوت عالٍ — كظل يتبع المتحدث بتأخير 1-2 ثانية. تُظهر الأبحاث تحسناً كبيراً في دقة النطق والتنغيم والإيقاع وربط الأصوات والاستماع والطلاقة.

تدريب Shadowing: American English Intonation | IELTS Topic: Describe an occasion when you lost something - تعلم التحدث بالإنجليزية عبر الفيديو

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