शैडोइंग अभ्यास: American English Intonation | IELTS Topic: Describe an object you find particularly beautiful - वीडियो के साथ अंग्रेजी बोलना सीखें

Hey, what's up?

It's Alex.

Now I'd like to look at the pitch and accent changes in this short text about really old cars.

I love the design of really old cars from the 1930s and 1940s.

I love the design of really old cars.

Love design really old cars from the 1930s and 1940s.

So love design cars, these are all important words in the sentence.

And 1930s and 1940s, we have kind of a rise and fall intonation there.

The words and and from the get reduced, because they're just function words.

They had so much style and character.

Now I'm emphasizing style and character.

They had so much style and character, because I'm also emphasizing that it was a lot.

I'm emphasizing so much style and character.

Compared to modern cars.

Here we say compared to in kind of a lower tone because we're contrasting.

They had so much compared to modern cars.

Modern cars.

And then we'll go up with modern and kind of come down again with cars.

Actually, when I was in high school, actually, actually, we're beginning the sentence actually, like this, and so we have kind of a rising tone.

When I was, that's not that important to the sentence, so the important part is high school,

high school, so that gets emphasized more than when I was.

When I was in high school, I always thought when I grew up, I always thought when I grew up, remember when I, de-stressed.

When I grew up, that I'd own one.

I always thought when I grew up that I'd own one.

Own one.

Now, this is a long sentence, so one gets a kind of a rising tone, because it shows the listener that you're not done speaking yet.

That I'd own one, that I'd own one, but of course they're not practical at all to drive around these days.

But of course they're not practical at all to drive around these days.

So sometimes when I'm saying the function words here, I'm not de-emphasizing them as much in some sentences compared to other sentences,

and this is just kind of a personal preference.

There's no rules specifically about when to de-stress them a little bit and when to de-stress function words a lot.

So you'll hear sometimes the function words spoken in a medium tone, and that's fine too.

The important part is keeping the flow of the sentence with the sentence chunks and stressing the important words.

But of course, they're not practical at all to drive around these days.

So you're practical at all.

Those things are the thing that I'm emphasizing in the sentence.

Practical at all.

Not practical at all.

These days.

I'm stressing these because I'm comparing it to in the past.

It was more practical to drive cars like that in the past, but these days.

These days, they're not practical.

Sometimes you can find a company that'll rent you a classic car.

Sometimes you can find a company that'll, that'll, that'll.

Remember, that'll is reduced a lot in speech and in terms of the tone as well as the vowels and consonants.

That'll rent you a classic car for a few hours or a few days to drive around.

For a few hours or a few days to drive around.

A few hours or a few days to drive around.

So normally we have this A or B intonation, the comparison intonation, hours or days.

But because days here is still in the middle of the sentence, we can't give it a strong falling tone.

I can't say a few hours or a few days to drive around, because it sounds like I'm ending the sentence a few hours or a few days to drive around.

It sounded like I ended the sentence early.

So, a few hours or a few days to drive around.

We kind of go days, it goes down a little bit and then stays up to show that you're not done speaking.

A few hours or a few days to drive around.

I'd love to do something like that.

I'd love, I'd love, rise, fall.

I'd love to do something like that.

I love the design of really old cars from the 1930s and 1940s.

They had so much style and character compared to modern cars.

Actually, when I was in high school, I always thought when I grew up that I'd own one, but of course they're not practical at all to drive around these days.

Sometimes you can find a company that'll rent you a classic car for a few hours

or a few days to drive around.

I'd love to do something like that.

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शैडोइंग (Shadowing) एक विज्ञान-समर्थित भाषा सीखने की तकनीक है जो मूल रूप से पेशेवर दुभाषिया प्रशिक्षण के लिए विकसित की गई थी। विधि सरल लेकिन शक्तिशाली है: आप मूल अंग्रेज़ी ऑडियो सुनते हैं और तुरंत इसे ज़ोर से दोहराते हैं — जैसे वक्ता की छाया 1-2 सेकंड की देरी से। शोध से पता चलता है कि यह उच्चारण सटीकता, स्वर, लय, जुड़ी हुई ध्वनियाँ, सुनने की समझ और बोलने की प्रवाहशीलता में काफ़ी सुधार करता है।

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