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Today I'm going to talk about intonation.
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I've touched on this subject in various other videos without ever explicitly defining it, and today that's what we're going to do.
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But I'm also going to reference these other videos, and I really encourage you to go watch those as well.
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If you've seen my videos on word stress, then you've already heard me talk a little bit about pitch.
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Stressed syllables will be higher in pitch, and often a little longer and a little louder than unstressed syllables.
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And there are certain words that will have a stress within a sentence.
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Content words.
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And certain words that will generally be unstressed, and those are function words.
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For more information on that, I invite you to watch those videos those.
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Intonation is the idea that these different pitches across a phrase form a pattern, and that those patterns characterize speech.
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In American English, statements tend to start higher in pitch and end lower in pitch.
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You know this if you've seen my video, Questions Versus Statements.
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In that video, we learned that statements, me, go down in pitch, and questions, me?
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Go up and pitch at the end.
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So these pitch patterns across a phrase that characterize a language are little melodies.
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And the melodies of American English will be very different than, for example, the melodies of Chinese.
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If you haven't already seen the blog I did on the podcast Musical Language, I encourage you to take a look at that.
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It It talks about the melody of speech.
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Understanding and using correct intonation is a very important part to sounding natural.
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Even if you're making the correct sounds of American English, but you're speaking in the speech patterns or the intonation of another language,
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it will still sound very foreign.
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Intonation can also convey meaning or an opinion, an attitude.
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Let's take, for example, the statement, I'm dropping out of school, and the response, are you serious?
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Are you serious?
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A question going up in pitch, conveys perhaps an open attitude, concern for the person.
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Are you serious?
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But, are you serious?
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Down in pitch, more which you would expect of a statement.
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Are you serious?
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The same words, but when and it is intoned this way.
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It is conveying a judgement.
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Are you serious?
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A negative one.
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I don't agree that you should be dropping out of school.
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I'm dropping out of school.
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Are you serious?
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I'm dropping out of school.
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Are you serious?
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With the same words, very different meanings can be conveyed.
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So intonation is the stress pattern, the pitch pattern of speech.
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The melody of speech.
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If you've read my bio on my website, you know that melody is something I'm especially keen on as I studied music through the master's level.
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Yes, that was yours truly, thinking a lot about melody.
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Now you know that in American English, statements will tend to go down in pitch.
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Let's look at some examples.
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Here Here we see two short sentences.
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Today it's sunny.
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I wish I'd been there.
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And you can see for both of them that the pitch goes down throughout the sentence.
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Here we have two longer sentences, and though there is some up and down throughout the sentences, for both sentences the lowest point is at the end.
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I'm going to France next month to visit at a friend who's studying there.
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It's finally starting to feel like spring in New York.
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The software I used to look at the pitch of those sentences is called Pratt, and there's a link in the footer of my website.
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So it's at the very bottom of every page.
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I hope you're getting a feel for how important intonation is to sounding natural and native in American English.
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I hope you'll listen for this as you listen to native speakers, and that if you haven't already done so, that you'll go to my website and do some of those imitation exercises
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which loop patterns of speech
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so you hear them several times to get the melody in your ear before you're asked to repeat.
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That's it, and thanks so much for using Rachel's English.
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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección
Esta lección de conversación de nivel B1 se basa en el vídeo “American English Pronunciation: Intonation”. Las palabras que más se repiten: pitch, serious, intonation, pattern, sentence. Este vídeo tiene 59 frases y 697 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 4:46. El hablante mantiene un ritmo constante de unas 146 palabras por minuto, cómodo para el shadowing. El 82 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés; conviene repasar el resto antes de empezar. 9 de sus 59 frases son preguntas, así que sirve para practicar la entonación de las preguntas y las respuestas cortas.
Vocabulario clave de este vídeo
Las 15 palabras más avanzadas del vídeo, con su pronunciación y significado:
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| melody sustantivo | /ˈmɛl.ə.di/ | melodía |
| intonation sustantivo | /ɪntəˈneɪʃən/ | entonación |
| convey verbo | /kənˈveɪ/ | trasladar, transladar |
| distress sustantivo | /dɪˈstɹɛs/ | distrés, distress |
| characterize verbo | /ˈkɛɹəktəɹaɪz/ | caracterizar |
| syllable sustantivo | /ˈsɪl.ə.bəl/ | sílaba |
| unstressed adjetivo | /ʌnˈstɹɛst/ | átono, inacentuado |
| phrase sustantivo | /ˈfɹeɪ̯z/ | frase |
| footer sustantivo | /ˈfʊtə(ɹ)/ | pie de página |
| imitation sustantivo | /ɪmɪˈteɪ̯ʃən/ | imitación |
| explicitly adverbio | explícitamente, rotundamente | |
| sunny adjetivo | /ˈsʌni/ | asoleado, soleado |
| keen adjetivo | /kin/ | entusiasta, ardoroso |
| podcast sustantivo | /ˈpɑdˌkæst/ | podcast, pódcast |
| judgment sustantivo | /ˈd͡ʒʌd͡ʒ.mənt/ | juicio, juzgamiento |
Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar
| Palabra | Significado |
|---|---|
| go up verbo | subir |
Frases que vale la pena repetir
Frases cortas y completas del vídeo que puedes reutilizar en la conversación diaria:
- Today I'm going to talk about intonation.
- I'm dropping out of school.
- Let's look at some examples.
- I wish I'd been there.
Gramática en este vídeo
Las estructuras que más usa el hablante, con las palabras exactas del vídeo:
| Estructura | En el vídeo |
|---|---|
| Present perfect have/has + participio pasado — una acción pasada que sigue importando ahora | I've touched · you've seen · haven't already seen |
| Voz pasiva be + participio pasado — importa lo que ocurre, no quién lo hace | be unstressed · is intoned · can be conveyed |
| Present continuous am/is/are + -ing — algo que ocurre ahora o en estos días | you're making · I'm dropping · is conveying |
| Futuro con “will” will + verbo — una decisión, una promesa o una predicción | will be · will have · will generally be |
Pronunciación a tener en cuenta
El hablante usa 23 contracciones y formas reducidas, como I'm, you're, you've. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.
- Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: intonation /ɪntəˈneɪʃən/, imitation /ɪmɪˈteɪ̯ʃən/
- Palabras largas — cuida el acento: intonation /ɪntəˈneɪʃən/, characterize /ˈkɛɹəktəɹaɪz/, imitation /ɪmɪˈteɪ̯ʃən/
Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:
- /v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: convey /kənˈveɪ/, invite /ɪnˈvaɪt/
- /z/ — sonora, no /s/: characterize /ˈkɛɹəktəɹaɪz/, phrase /ˈfɹeɪ̯z/
Cómo practicar con este vídeo
- Escucha el vídeo entero una vez sin hablar y anota las palabras que no conoces.
- Haz shadowing frase por frase a velocidad normal, repitiendo cada una hasta que tu ritmo coincida con el del hablante.
- Grábate y compara con el original, prestando atención a palabras como melody, intonation, convey.
¿Qué es la Técnica de Shadowing?
Shadowing es una técnica de aprendizaje de idiomas respaldada por la ciencia, desarrollada originalmente para la formación de intérpretes profesionales y popularizada por el políglota Dr. Alexander Arguelles. El método es simple pero poderoso: escuchas audio en inglés nativo y lo repites en voz alta de inmediato, como una sombra que sigue al hablante con solo 1-2 segundos de retraso. A diferencia de la escucha pasiva o los ejercicios de gramática, el shadowing obliga a tu cerebro y músculos de la boca a procesar y reproducir simultáneamente patrones de habla reales. Las investigaciones muestran que mejora significativamente la precisión de la pronunciación, la entonación, el ritmo, el habla conectada, la comprensión auditiva y la fluidez al hablar, convirtiéndola en una de las metodologías más efectivas para la preparación del IELTS Speaking y la comunicación en inglés en el mundo real.