American Intonation Patterns and 10 Common Uses | English Pronunciation Training

Learn common American intonation patterns and how to use intonation to hold someone’s attention, express certainty in your ideas, disagree with someone politely, indicate surprise, and more.
Every language has intonation patterns and in this pronunciation training lesson, you’ll learn 4 American English intonation patterns you can begin to use and recognize in English conversations.
Along the way, you’ll learn common examples of how each intonation pattern is used and you can practice American pronunciation along with me using a shadowing method or mirroring method.
Get the full transcript, with examples, of this pronunciation lesson at the Speak Confident English website www.speakconfidentenglish.com...
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Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
02:20 - What is intonation
03:30 - 4 common intonation patterns
06:09 - Mirroring and shadowing practice
07:13 - Intonation Use 1
09:24 - Intonation Use 2
10:44 - Intonation Use 3
11:40 - Intonation Use 4
13:15 - Intonation Use 5
14:42 - Intonation Use 6
16:15 - Intonation Use 7
17:42 - Intonation Use 8
20:57 - Intonation Use 9
21:43 - Intonation Use 10
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Hi Annemarie, I was so excited to see you had a lesson on intonation - one of my favorite topics! I love the way you show the power we have in our voice to create understanding in our listener, and to communicate our message with more impact. We actually help our listener follow and deeply understand us when we make effective use of intonation! As always, you bring calm and clarity to the subject you present. 15:30 - such an important and often neglected distinction between the meaning of "What time to you want to meet?" depending on whether or not it's been discussed before! I almost never hear anyone talk about that - kudos!

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@@Speakconfidentenglish could you please suggest some voices to daily practice intonation? (American English shadowing practice)

[@Speakconfidentenglish]

Thanks for the question. I think it's always important to:
1) Select a variety of speakers so you can learn from different speaking styles
2) Select speakers you like or admire. In addition to RUclips, you could consider podcasters and TED Talk presenters.

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Please do a video on the definite and indefinite articles. They can get confusing sometimes.

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Thank you for the suggestion! I can certainly add that to my list for future lesson topics.

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Thank you so much for your useful and impeccable lessons. I'm Amir from Iran. I have three questions about American English pronunciation:
1) “We’re booked on Air Canada” why we pronounce “ed” as “D” sound? The sound before Ed ending is unvoiced so the ED ending becomes a T sound and we will lightly release the T and connect it into the next sound which is a vowel.
2) In “Could I have a pillow, please?” , “I do have a small bottle of lotion” and “Don’t you have a watch on?” we reduce “have” but it’s the main verb and it’s not helping verb so it’s content word. But in this example “I only have a carry on” we don't reduce it.
3) why in these two examples “what was his name again?” and “Was he there?” we reduce “was” to “wəz”? I know it’s natural to say that but grammatically “was” is the main verb and technically we can’t reduce it.
I look forward to receiving your response as soon as possible.

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Thank you for the questions, Amir. I'll certainly consider these for future lesson topics. Are the example sentences you shared from specific examples you've heard?

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This is great. Thanks!
I'm curious if there's a denomination for the intonation now widely used by most Americans when explaining things

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I'm glad this is helpful. Can you tell me a bit more about what you mean with 'denomination of the intonation now widely used?'

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intonation to let them fully understand your words, but also how you feel.

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Thank you so much, Annemarie! I am learning a lot and feeling more confident. I have a question to better understand how to use intonation: if I got it right, rising intonation in a statement is used to hold attention, until you are done and will use falling intonation. In the Intonation Use 3, at 11:16 mark you use a rising intonation on the last word "ever". In this way wouldn't people think that I still have something to add, since I am not using the falling intonation on the last word of the sentence? If not, could you explain how to express surprise etc. and let people understand you are done talking? It is still so hard for me getting the right intonation, since I have to think first about how to "translate" my thoughts first, where to place the stress, and how to link and shorten unstressed words. Thank you!

[@Speakconfidentenglish]

Thank you for the question. We can use intonation for multiple purposes and, in doing so, we consider the context of the entire sentence or conversation. As noted with that example, we can express enthusiasm and excitement with rising intonation as well. If it were a conversation, I might continue after expressing my excitement by asking a question. It may also be understand by the listener (based on the context of my statement) that I'm expressing excitement without the expectation for further comment.

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Dear Madam, with all reswpects to your knowledge, offering 10 common uses of English pronounciation patterns is may be for a general overview of applying intonaton, but in temrs of teaching, it lacks methodology of separating the 10 uses by levels of understanding , i.e. beginners, intermediate or advanced. Best regards. Paul, 66, retired teacher of technical English.

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