I'm wondering if I sounded rude to a chef who I felt was being disrespectful to me. The day before, she and my boss had taken me to the latter's office to talk to me about a few mistakes I made. But you know what? I think she could've handled it better. It really wasn't worth a trip to the office, let alone with both women. The chef could've just spoken to me privately for a couple mistakes, someplace else, with respect and tact. I think I deserved that. She was firm, restrictive, and insensitive. She even said to my boss, "Is there anything you want to add?" Way to rub my mistakes in my face, as if I'm a criminal in an interrogation room. And then the next day, she asked "How are you?" I replied, "With all due respect, please don't patronize me or be passive-aggressive after yesterday." Now I wasn't trying to be rude, but to be fair, her question was ridiculous. What was she thinking? That I was doing well after she treated me the day before? I guess my resentment made me say what I said. I felt disrespected by both her behavior the day prior and her "polite" question to me. I wouldn't lecture someone one day and ask how they are the next; that's rude and patronizing.
I work in a warehouse environment. I am female and drive a forklift delivering merchandise to coworkers in departments for replinishment. I move coworkers as needed to other areas that have a heavier delivery than others and i pick up overflow items and must also double check the items are indeed overflow or correct the action. It is a fast paced job, we communicate over walkie talkies and i must stop driving each time i need to communicate on the radio, therefore my comments are brief and straight forward. I am told i sound mad or rude...please help.
We seem to be in the literal same position. I work in a warehouse in New Jersey, and I am a Driver; Male. I am also told I have a tone problem. But this "intonation" lessons sounds absurdly robotic to me. The way the video started, when the guy was talking sounded completely fine to me, it sounded natural to my ears. When I'm shown a visual display of how I should talk I feel like I'm being judged harshly for just talking how I talk. People take it as rude, I am not trying to be rude, but this doesn't seem right. Did you ever figure out a solution within the 11 months of posting this comment?
I'm surprised you don't have more comments here!! I really think that ESL, EFL learners do not understand the importance of intonation and therefore think that it's optional. I try to convey this to my Brazilian learners and they don't seem to be that interested in it. I think I need to come up with similar phrases in Portuguese and say them wrong...meaning with the wrong intonation. I think that way, they might understand better. However, Portuguese doesn't rely on intonation as much as we do in American English.. Great video. I'm sharing on my facebook page. Love all your vids!!!!
Great stuff here which isn't really covered much in EFL. I feel that many learners feel that if they use 'polite' phrases and add on 'please' then it automatically qualifies as being polite.
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HI Christina, I am using your videos to help my call center agents to improve their intonation. Tnanks so much
Wow, I am truly honored Fernando! Thanks for sharing my lessons with them! How is their training going?
I'm wondering if I sounded rude to a chef who I felt was being disrespectful to me. The day before, she and my boss had taken me to the latter's office to talk to me about a few mistakes I made. But you know what? I think she could've handled it better. It really wasn't worth a trip to the office, let alone with both women. The chef could've just spoken to me privately for a couple mistakes, someplace else, with respect and tact. I think I deserved that. She was firm, restrictive, and insensitive. She even said to my boss, "Is there anything you want to add?" Way to rub my mistakes in my face, as if I'm a criminal in an interrogation room.
And then the next day, she asked "How are you?" I replied, "With all due respect, please don't patronize me or be passive-aggressive after yesterday." Now I wasn't trying to be rude, but to be fair, her question was ridiculous. What was she thinking? That I was doing well after she treated me the day before? I guess my resentment made me say what I said. I felt disrespected by both her behavior the day prior and her "polite" question to me. I wouldn't lecture someone one day and ask how they are the next; that's rude and patronizing.
I work in a warehouse environment. I am female and drive a forklift delivering merchandise to coworkers in departments for replinishment. I move coworkers as needed to other areas that have a heavier delivery than others and i pick up overflow items and must also double check the items are indeed overflow or correct the action. It is a fast paced job, we communicate over walkie talkies and i must stop driving each time i need to communicate on the radio, therefore my comments are brief and straight forward. I am told i sound mad or rude...please help.
We seem to be in the literal same position. I work in a warehouse in New Jersey, and I am a Driver; Male. I am also told I have a tone problem. But this "intonation" lessons sounds absurdly robotic to me. The way the video started, when the guy was talking sounded completely fine to me, it sounded natural to my ears. When I'm shown a visual display of how I should talk I feel like I'm being judged harshly for just talking how I talk. People take it as rude, I am not trying to be rude, but this doesn't seem right. Did you ever figure out a solution within the 11 months of posting this comment?
I'm surprised you don't have more comments here!! I really think that ESL, EFL learners do not understand the importance of intonation and therefore think that it's optional. I try to convey this to my Brazilian learners and they don't seem to be that interested in it. I think I need to come up with similar phrases in Portuguese and say them wrong...meaning with the wrong intonation. I think that way, they might understand better. However, Portuguese doesn't rely on intonation as much as we do in American English.. Great video. I'm sharing on my facebook page. Love all your vids!!!!
Great stuff here which isn't really covered much in EFL. I feel that many learners feel that if they use 'polite' phrases and add on 'please' then it automatically qualifies as being polite.
That's was funny!!
Being autistic makes this difficult to do
great
Helpful！
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I think the intonation in french most of the time goes up. don't think it was a good example - russian would be :)