Continue to explore what's available to you in your voice with these fun vocal exercises designed for non-native English speakers: ruclips.net/video/4ES4EYZL4GY/видео.html 🎶
This is one of the most helpful videos I have ever seen in my life. It's informative, succinct and actually pinpoints the issue with sounding 'off' when speaking any foreign language. Please please please continue doing those.
I'm happy to hear that this video has helped you! It took me many, many years to understand how my pitch in English was affecting how I spoke Spanish. Pitch steps and glides are absolutely essential for clear communication in English! Be sure to check out more recent videos with more exercises, especially this one on contrast: ruclips.net/video/zuQuwgeKxZ8/видео.html
Hi, Kim I truly appreciate your teaching methods. I am an Indian and living in Canada for the last couple of years. I understand the importance of losing my accent to speak English with better clarity.
The best Channel on American pronounciation by far. You are so sweet, Kim, and you speak so clearly and appealingly. I'm hanging on your lips actually. And when the video ends, I have clarified things, and the next day everything's fresh in my mind. You are fantastic. Thank you.
Thank you Kim. I love the variations in your own personal pitch levels; indeed your voice keeps us engaged! I am using your videos on pitch and intonation to help my clients who have Apraxia of Speech. Since we're on Zoom this gives them another model to imitate. Your work is changing lives. I most certainly appreciate you. A 70-year-old speech language pathologist
Thank you so much for the kind words, Sharon! It means a lot to hear that my work is helping you with your clients. I'm glad that my voice is keeping you engaged. Using a wider pitch range often helps non-native speakers hear the variations that aren't necessarily so obvious to them because they're still tuning their ears. I always try to remind people that these pitch levels are relative to each person's voice, so it's awesome that you're using a variety of models!
Thanks a lot for your course. I'm so glad to tell you that you're so good at English and keep on helping people around the world to learn English. it's informative really
Awesome! Many people say that they really enjoy listening to my live videos because it helps them feel like they're having a conversation. Check out this playlist here: ruclips.net/p/PL81YJkck6j1tc8jC3eIAbIZcISB8OoTP-
While I understand what you mean, my experience has shown that you don't have to sound just like a native English speaker to communicate clearly. I follow quite a few channels by non-native speakers and they're doing great because they're easily to understand. This video shares the most important things you can do to communicate clearly: ruclips.net/video/9jEP6sLyKkA/видео.html
This is so helpful and new to me. For Chinese, it is harder to notice pitch variations when we're listening. Students are taught to speak formally in a standard broadcasting way (or even more robotic). And for those who have learned how stress works, it's easy to simply mix this up with our native tones. Kim, is it right that stress and intonation are not exactly the same？ Seems like intonation is more complex and it's more about pitch and fluctuation.
Thank you for the insightful comment and question! You're right - there is a tendency to teach students a more robotic, mechanical way to speak with little exposure to natural-sounding rhythm and melody. An added challenge for Chinese speakers is that tones work differently, and pitch changes work very differently in English. But like you said, once you're familiar with stress, it gets easier, because these changes are always relative to your own voice! As for stress and intonation, they are NOT the same thing. There are a few popular videos on intonation that actually describe sentence stress. I like to say that stress and intonation work together. Stress is the rise and fall of our voice that happens through regularly emphasized syllables. Intonation has many purposes - it is used for grammatical reasons (like questions and statements), to express attitudes and emotions, for emphasis and clarity, and for conversational purposes (to signal turn-taking, to encourage conversation, to show respect, hesitation, and authority, to name just a few). Intonation includes inflection (stressing one word more than others) and pitch variation. Look out for my video next week on Five Intonation Myths - I clarify the differences between stress and intonation in it!
@@Englishwithkim Yes！I'm excited to hear that and Kim you are so kind ！I'll recommend your channel to my friends . That'd be so great if you make it clear for everyone. In China the most popular accent book is "American accent training-Ann Cook ". It is mainly about stress patterns and rhythm, but based on its content we used to think that stress equals intonation or it's just about rising and falling at the end of a sentence. These ideas are so confusing at the beginning, but most accent teachers don't talk enough about their differences. Fact is, the intonation system is so fun and fascinating and it really got my attention when I saw your video on breathing and pausing .
Thank you for recommending my channel to your friends! It really helps more people find my videos. Although I haven't read the book American Accent Training myself, another member of this community shared an excerpt with me and I realized that Ann Cook and I definitely agree that you can seriously improve your accent if you only focus on stress patterns! In that excerpt, she referred to stress as intonation, and that's because they're connected. Specifically, we may change focus words to change the meaning of a sentence, but if you're not correctly stressing the entire sentence, this will be hard for your listener to interpret. I also recommend that people start with stress pattens and the rise and fall at the end of sentence (you'll hear me give this advice in a number of videos). But like you said, intonation goes much deeper than that (and it is fascinating for sure!). I just finished creating a complete course on intonation and read a lot of the research as I worked on the course. It's not always easy for linguists to agree on intonation, so my job is to translate it as best I can so that people can put it into practice. I'm happy you liked my video on breathing and pausing. Over the past couple years, I've been making more detailed videos on each of those topics with more examples. I'm actually going to record a new video about breathing this month - let me know if you have any specific questions as they help me figure out the best way to explain the concepts!
I AM ACTUALLY GOING TO HAVE A SPEECH NEXT TUESDAY I M STRESSING OUT ABOUT MY INTONATION AS A NON NATIVE SPEAKER CAN YOU HELP ? THANKS FOR THE GOOD WORK KEEP IT UP.
When giving speeches, remember to breathe and slow down to allow people time to process what you're saying. This playlist has my best tips on intonation: ruclips.net/p/PL81YJkck6j1t6ZPViiL8zOLYVvz1Gjdjz In particular, I encourage you to linger on key words and pause after important ideas. You can also review the three simple intonation patterns that you need to communicate clearly.
You're awesome Kim! Thank you so much for this video, you explain things very easily and your pronunciation is nice...I'm working on improving my stress and intonation and this video is simply perfect! I will recommend your channel to all my friends. Thanks!
I'm happy to hear this video was easy to follow - it's one of my favorites too! Be sure to check out my playlists on stress and intonation for more practice. 🙌
I was born in the USA. So I don’t have a problem speaking English, but I’m getting into voice acting and I need to be bow to change pitch and tone. So I’m learning. Do you do videos for that ?
These videos are designed for non-native English speakers who are pretty new to pitch and tone of voice, but this information is also useful for native English speakers who want to understand how and why we change our pitch to express meaning. I would suggest you try these videos to explore your pitch more: Intonation Exercises: ruclips.net/video/bSx6Zg9Ibgw/видео.html Voice Exercises: ruclips.net/video/4ES4EYZL4GY/видео.html How We Use Pitch in English: ruclips.net/video/AED6n4bEqEE/видео.html I do not have experience with voice acting myself, but voice actors have commented that my videos have helped them understand different aspects of pitch and tone of voice.
Hi Kim. Great video! *All* your videos are very helpful.. Can ask you a question? Could you please tell me what's the right way to say, "Quiero pasar al nivel avanzado" in English? I don't know how to say that in English. Let's say I'm an Intermediate English learner and I want to say, "quiero pasar o quiero llegar al nivel avanzado" o "quiero saber qué es lo que necesito para poder pasar al nivel avanzado". What would be the best way (the most natural way) to say that in English?
This is actually a very interesting question. To be honest, it depends on the situation and who you're talking with. We would only talk about "advanced level English" inside a language school; it wouldn't sound natural in a conversation outside of a learning environment. In that case, I would probably say "I want to become an advanced speaker" or "I want to get to/reach the advanced level at this school." In other situations, I would suggest something like "I want to achieve a higher level of English" or even "I want to reach the next level of English." But it would sound more natural to say something like "I want to become more fluent" or "I want to become more proficient" or "I want to sound more like a native speaker" or "I want to improve my English ability to [speak more confidently or give better presentations at work]." It would sound better if you were more specific about why. "What do I need to do in order to significantly improve my English skills?" You'll notice that's why I often ask you to be specific about "why" in my mindset videos. Having an advanced level doesn't really matter in an English-speaking environment - the question is whether you can speak English well enough for the situation or not. So tell me, why you do you want this advanced level of English? 😉
English with Kim Yes, "I want to become more fluent" is a good way to put it, and it sounds very natural (I mean, it sounds natural to me because I've heard it before). I just wanted to know what other expressions could be used to say "quiero alcanzar el nivel avanzado en inglés", so thanks for showing me so many alternatives. Después de leer tu mensaje, me puse a pensar por unos segundos en lo útil que sería que hubiera un *diccionario en línea* de expresiones en inglés y sus "sinónimos" (sinónimos entre comillas porque, como acabas de explicar, hay muchas expresiones que son similares entre sí pero que no siempre pueden usarse una en vez de la otra. Al menos a mí me serviría muchísimo. Gracias por tu respuesta tan atinada. Me ayudó bastante.
I completely agree with you - beyond the intermediate level, non-native speakers need to learn these expressions because they truly help you express your thoughts more naturally. In fact, that is why teaching expressions in conversational situations was the very first thing I taught on Facebook Live and this channel! I call them "essential conversation skills" and "interactional language." If you look back to the earliest videos on this channel, you'll see tons of useful expressions, and there are even more on my website: englishwithkim.com/category/essential-conversation-skills/ I have a course on this topic but am thinking of publishing an eBook in the future, too. In general, when I work with clients, we work on "discovering" these expressions when they find they don't have the right way to express these ideas. It is often hard to anticipate what language you don't have yet - but you definitely know when you can't figure out a natural way to express this idea!
English with Kim Great. I would love to buy a book written by you, especially if it is about words and expressions that are commonly used in American English.
Hi Kim. New to your channel and I subscribed. I just want to ask you a help. I want to overcome my tounge and pronunciation and lose my native accent Thank you
Welcome to my channel, Erika! You're off to a great start by focusing on pitch in order to help you improve your accent. The number one step I can recommend is to practice word and sentence stress. You can get started with this playlist: ruclips.net/p/PL81YJkck6j1vHrMoHzzgti7vMwqzjwWwZ or sign up for my free Stress Starter Kit on my website: englishwithkim.com/ssk/ 😀
I red some English articals and they say there are 4 levels of English pitch: 1-Low Pitch,2- Neutral Pitch, 3-High Pitch and 4-Extra High Pitch.the two examples :lo LO lo,re re RE.I guess LO and RE are the 3-High Pitch,but I am so struggling that lo lo re re are 1-Low Pitch or 2- Neutral Pitch.let me try to describe more details : the word "intonation" ,the stressed syllables na is 3-High Pitch but what about the unstressed in and ton and tion syllables, they should be 1-Low Pitch or 2- Neutral Pitch. My question is :what time is the 1-Low Pitch or the 2- Neutral Pitch for the syllable ? And the sentence :it's the first day of thirty days American accent challenge and I feel really great .which syllables should be 1-Low Pitch or 2- Neutral Pitch. I feel like it's a stupid question,but I think I got stuck here.If you could help ,that would be really great and grateful.
I explain the four main pitch levels in this video (at the timestamp I've included): ruclips.net/video/4ES4EYZL4GY/видео.html In the practice examples with "lo LO lo" / "re re RE" you're moving between neutral pitch and high pitch. We hit the low pitch when using falling intonation at the end of statements and information questions. We hit the extra high pitch on focus words in thought groups and full sentences, and also when using rising intonation. Once you watch the other video, see if you can figure out the right pitch levels for your example.
Check out my response to your other comment. I find that the only way to see if these exercises help is to experiment with them. A lot of my videos *are* a result of experiments working with people who need to explore pitch and their voice.
It depends on the sentence and the context. We stress the most important words in a thought group, which are often nouns, but may be any other content word depending on your meaning. The first step is to be sure you're stressing all content words, before working on the different levels of stress and breaking your ideas into thought groups. Have you seen my video on sentence stress? ruclips.net/video/EDdmqlarRQA/видео.html
Isn't it a lot easier to have a native talk to you, pay attention to the way that person sound and then trying to emulated how that person sounds? (I'm doing exactly that right at this very moment).
Listening to and imitating a native speaker whose voice and intonation you like is a great option. You can also listen to podcast interviews and do the same thing. There are many possible ways to work on your stress and intonation. These particular exercises are about consciously increasing the control of your pitch. Those glides can be challenging for people to hear or say on one syllable words.
Each word has one syllable that receives primary stress, which means it's the longest, louder, and highest in pitch. We emphasize the key words of a sentence using sentence stress. This means we'll stress the stressed syllables of stressed words. This video will help: ruclips.net/video/EDdmqlarRQA/видео.html
Hi, I am Krishna from India. I can read, understand and write but can't speak. So please help, what should I do to speak English. Or is it possible that i will speak in English?
Hi Krishna! Do you have regular opportunities to speak with people in English? When I was learning Spanish, I could read, understand, and write quite well, but wasn't able to speak until I immersed myself in Spanish (by moving to Argentina to study) and my brain was able to connect all that information to speaking. If you don't have many opportunities to interact with English speakers, I suggest you try some of these exercises (they are the ones I used to become more fluent): ruclips.net/video/P6UXuOIqTA0/видео.html Please trust that all the work you've done to learn the language will help you when you need to speak!
Yes, I work one-to-one with clients on Skype. I've also created in-depth courses based on my one-to-one coaching programs. You can learn more at my website: englishwithkim.com/work-with-me/ Feel free to send me a message via my website with your questions!
That is completely normal as you start learning how to use your pitch. You may need to train your ear to hear the differences, so try this video for more guidance: ruclips.net/video/X8S17no_g3Y/видео.html
Hi Kim, would you like to listen the 2 sentences(ruclips.net/video/CLaF_gdtRgE/видео.html)? my question is "the stress pitch method of "largest" sounds like not same, what's the difference in English?" thanks
Interesting examples! The stress on "largest" is the same in both of these examples (LARGest). The first speaker is stressing the word a bit higher in pitch, relative to the rest of the words in the sentence. The second speaker is stressing the word, but the pitch rise is relative to his own voice and overall pitch levels. Otherwise, you can hear differences in how they speak, but it doesn't change the stress pattern.
It sounds like the first stress method used to the head of a sentence. for example, Dogs eat bones.(D/ogs e\at b/\ones).(dogs, the first method ; bones, the second method. if they are switched, like D/o\gs e\at b/o es. is it natural for native speaker? @@Englishwithkim
Whether a video is helpful for you depends on what you are hoping to learn from it. This video is about pitch steps and glides for people who are specifically looking for this type of practice. If you are looking for a more general overview of how pitch works (with lots of examples), check out this video: ruclips.net/video/iy3L1vzCCkc/видео.html This video on exploring your pitch is more in depth: ruclips.net/video/AED6n4bEqEE/видео.html
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Continue to explore what's available to you in your voice with these fun vocal exercises designed for non-native English speakers: ruclips.net/video/4ES4EYZL4GY/видео.html 🎶
This is one of the most helpful videos I have ever seen in my life. It's informative, succinct and actually pinpoints the issue with sounding 'off' when speaking any foreign language. Please please please continue doing those.
I'm happy to hear that this video has helped you! It took me many, many years to understand how my pitch in English was affecting how I spoke Spanish. Pitch steps and glides are absolutely essential for clear communication in English! Be sure to check out more recent videos with more exercises, especially this one on contrast: ruclips.net/video/zuQuwgeKxZ8/видео.html
Hi, Kim
I truly appreciate your teaching methods. I am an Indian and living in Canada for the last couple of years. I understand the importance of losing my accent to speak English with better clarity.
Thanks for the kind words. I'm happy to hear these videos are helping you speak more clearly and confidently!
The best Channel on American pronounciation by far. You are so sweet, Kim, and you speak so clearly and appealingly. I'm hanging on your lips actually. And when the video ends, I have clarified things, and the next day everything's fresh in my mind. You are fantastic. Thank you.
Thanks for the super kind words, Jo! It means a lot to hear that you appreciate my explanations and speaking style.
Thank you Kim. I love the variations in your own personal pitch levels; indeed your voice keeps us engaged! I am using your videos on pitch and intonation to help my clients who have Apraxia of Speech. Since we're on Zoom this gives them another model to imitate. Your work is changing lives. I most certainly appreciate you. A 70-year-old speech language pathologist
Thank you so much for the kind words, Sharon! It means a lot to hear that my work is helping you with your clients. I'm glad that my voice is keeping you engaged. Using a wider pitch range often helps non-native speakers hear the variations that aren't necessarily so obvious to them because they're still tuning their ears. I always try to remind people that these pitch levels are relative to each person's voice, so it's awesome that you're using a variety of models!
Thanks a lot for your course. I'm so glad to tell you that you're so good at English and keep on helping people around the world to learn English.
There's a lot to be learn to me. Thank you for this video.
My pleasure!
Thanks a lot for your course. I'm so glad to tell you that you're so good at English and keep on helping people around the world to learn English. it's informative really
Thank you! 😃 I appreciate the kind words, and I'm happy to hear these videos have been helping you!
Thank you Stay safe always
Thanks you so much for this wonderful subject
thanks again it's a pleasure to learn or , at least trying hard.
You'll often hear me say that small steps lead to big progress - so you're doing just fine!
Easy explanation , Thanks Kim😀
You’re welcome 😊
I'm practicing my listening with your videos.
Awesome! Many people say that they really enjoy listening to my live videos because it helps them feel like they're having a conversation. Check out this playlist here: ruclips.net/p/PL81YJkck6j1tc8jC3eIAbIZcISB8OoTP-
hi Kim this is the first video I watch and I think you are an excellent teacher thanks
How I wish I can speak like you or some other native American speakers . That would definitely help me in my videos.
While I understand what you mean, my experience has shown that you don't have to sound just like a native English speaker to communicate clearly. I follow quite a few channels by non-native speakers and they're doing great because they're easily to understand. This video shares the most important things you can do to communicate clearly: ruclips.net/video/9jEP6sLyKkA/видео.html
@@Englishwithkim thank you so much for your prompt reply. I will definitely check out the link.
great video! Thx!
You're most welcome - glad it helped!
you really help me,thx.
Very usefull tips.
I'm happy to hear this helped you!
This is so helpful and new to me. For Chinese, it is harder to notice pitch variations when we're listening. Students are taught to speak formally in a standard broadcasting way (or even more robotic). And for those who have learned how stress works, it's easy to simply mix this up with our native tones. Kim, is it right that stress and intonation are not exactly the same？ Seems like intonation is more complex and it's more about pitch and fluctuation.
Thank you for the insightful comment and question! You're right - there is a tendency to teach students a more robotic, mechanical way to speak with little exposure to natural-sounding rhythm and melody. An added challenge for Chinese speakers is that tones work differently, and pitch changes work very differently in English. But like you said, once you're familiar with stress, it gets easier, because these changes are always relative to your own voice! As for stress and intonation, they are NOT the same thing. There are a few popular videos on intonation that actually describe sentence stress. I like to say that stress and intonation work together. Stress is the rise and fall of our voice that happens through regularly emphasized syllables. Intonation has many purposes - it is used for grammatical reasons (like questions and statements), to express attitudes and emotions, for emphasis and clarity, and for conversational purposes (to signal turn-taking, to encourage conversation, to show respect, hesitation, and authority, to name just a few). Intonation includes inflection (stressing one word more than others) and pitch variation. Look out for my video next week on Five Intonation Myths - I clarify the differences between stress and intonation in it!
@@Englishwithkim Yes！I'm excited to hear that and Kim you are so kind ！I'll recommend your channel to my friends . That'd be so great if you make it clear for everyone. In China the most popular accent book is "American accent training-Ann Cook ". It is mainly about stress patterns and rhythm, but based on its content we used to think that stress equals intonation or it's just about rising and falling at the end of a sentence. These ideas are so confusing at the beginning, but most accent teachers don't talk enough about their differences. Fact is, the intonation system is so fun and fascinating and it really got my attention when I saw your video on breathing and pausing .
Thank you for recommending my channel to your friends! It really helps more people find my videos. Although I haven't read the book American Accent Training myself, another member of this community shared an excerpt with me and I realized that Ann Cook and I definitely agree that you can seriously improve your accent if you only focus on stress patterns! In that excerpt, she referred to stress as intonation, and that's because they're connected. Specifically, we may change focus words to change the meaning of a sentence, but if you're not correctly stressing the entire sentence, this will be hard for your listener to interpret. I also recommend that people start with stress pattens and the rise and fall at the end of sentence (you'll hear me give this advice in a number of videos). But like you said, intonation goes much deeper than that (and it is fascinating for sure!). I just finished creating a complete course on intonation and read a lot of the research as I worked on the course. It's not always easy for linguists to agree on intonation, so my job is to translate it as best I can so that people can put it into practice. I'm happy you liked my video on breathing and pausing. Over the past couple years, I've been making more detailed videos on each of those topics with more examples. I'm actually going to record a new video about breathing this month - let me know if you have any specific questions as they help me figure out the best way to explain the concepts!
Thank you, Kim, good job.
Thank you!!!
Just amazed by that, WOW, thank you so much for sharing!
Happy it helped you!
Thank you for your great efforts.
I like your tones, intonation and pitch.
I love this professor
Hey, KIM, Keep doing the great work.
This is so good to me for pronouncing.
I'm happy to hear this helped you. There are more pitch exercises in this video: ruclips.net/video/AED6n4bEqEE/видео.html
I AM ACTUALLY GOING TO HAVE A SPEECH NEXT TUESDAY I M STRESSING OUT ABOUT MY INTONATION AS A NON NATIVE SPEAKER CAN YOU HELP ? THANKS FOR THE GOOD WORK KEEP IT UP.
When giving speeches, remember to breathe and slow down to allow people time to process what you're saying. This playlist has my best tips on intonation: ruclips.net/p/PL81YJkck6j1t6ZPViiL8zOLYVvz1Gjdjz In particular, I encourage you to linger on key words and pause after important ideas. You can also review the three simple intonation patterns that you need to communicate clearly.
@@Englishwithkim Thank you Kim
Impressive!! Nice voice from a looking nice!!ha!
Thanks 😅
You're awesome Kim! Thank you so much for this video, you explain things very easily and your pronunciation is nice...I'm working on improving my stress and intonation and this video is simply perfect! I will recommend your channel to all my friends. Thanks!
I'm happy to hear this video was easy to follow - it's one of my favorites too! Be sure to check out my playlists on stress and intonation for more practice. 🙌
English with Kim thanks Kim! 😊 I will follow all of your videos 👍🏼👌🏼
Thanks!!❤️
You're most welcome!
Keep doing the great work...
Thanks Watching your videos just mad eme realize that I'm. Poor in pitch
You’re not alone! Almost everyone I work with has to improve how they use pitch. That’s why I made these videos!
Thanks!
No problem!
I was born in the USA. So I don’t have a problem speaking English, but I’m getting into voice acting and I need to be bow to change pitch and tone. So I’m learning. Do you do videos for that ?
These videos are designed for non-native English speakers who are pretty new to pitch and tone of voice, but this information is also useful for native English speakers who want to understand how and why we change our pitch to express meaning. I would suggest you try these videos to explore your pitch more:
Intonation Exercises: ruclips.net/video/bSx6Zg9Ibgw/видео.html
Voice Exercises: ruclips.net/video/4ES4EYZL4GY/видео.html
How We Use Pitch in English: ruclips.net/video/AED6n4bEqEE/видео.html
I do not have experience with voice acting myself, but voice actors have commented that my videos have helped them understand different aspects of pitch and tone of voice.
@@Englishwithkim thank you
Thank you very much !
You're welcome!
Clear and helpful ...
Hi Kim. Great video! *All* your videos are very helpful.. Can ask you a question? Could you please tell me what's the right way to say, "Quiero pasar al nivel avanzado" in English? I don't know how to say that in English. Let's say I'm an Intermediate English learner and I want to say, "quiero pasar o quiero llegar al nivel avanzado" o "quiero saber qué es lo que necesito para poder pasar al nivel avanzado". What would be the best way (the most natural way) to say that in English?
This is actually a very interesting question. To be honest, it depends on the situation and who you're talking with. We would only talk about "advanced level English" inside a language school; it wouldn't sound natural in a conversation outside of a learning environment. In that case, I would probably say "I want to become an advanced speaker" or "I want to get to/reach the advanced level at this school." In other situations, I would suggest something like "I want to achieve a higher level of English" or even "I want to reach the next level of English." But it would sound more natural to say something like "I want to become more fluent" or "I want to become more proficient" or "I want to sound more like a native speaker" or "I want to improve my English ability to [speak more confidently or give better presentations at work]." It would sound better if you were more specific about why. "What do I need to do in order to significantly improve my English skills?" You'll notice that's why I often ask you to be specific about "why" in my mindset videos. Having an advanced level doesn't really matter in an English-speaking environment - the question is whether you can speak English well enough for the situation or not. So tell me, why you do you want this advanced level of English? 😉
English with Kim Yes, "I want to become more fluent" is a good way to put it, and it sounds very natural (I mean, it sounds natural to me because I've heard it before). I just wanted to know what other expressions could be used to say "quiero alcanzar el nivel avanzado en inglés", so thanks for showing me so many alternatives.
Después de leer tu mensaje, me puse a pensar por unos segundos en lo útil que sería que hubiera un *diccionario en línea* de expresiones en inglés y sus "sinónimos" (sinónimos entre comillas porque, como acabas de explicar, hay muchas expresiones que son similares entre sí pero que no siempre pueden usarse una en vez de la otra. Al menos a mí me serviría muchísimo.
Gracias por tu respuesta tan atinada. Me ayudó bastante.
I completely agree with you - beyond the intermediate level, non-native speakers need to learn these expressions because they truly help you express your thoughts more naturally. In fact, that is why teaching expressions in conversational situations was the very first thing I taught on Facebook Live and this channel! I call them "essential conversation skills" and "interactional language." If you look back to the earliest videos on this channel, you'll see tons of useful expressions, and there are even more on my website: englishwithkim.com/category/essential-conversation-skills/ I have a course on this topic but am thinking of publishing an eBook in the future, too. In general, when I work with clients, we work on "discovering" these expressions when they find they don't have the right way to express these ideas. It is often hard to anticipate what language you don't have yet - but you definitely know when you can't figure out a natural way to express this idea!
English with Kim Great. I would love to buy a book written by you, especially if it is about words and expressions that are commonly used in American English.
I really love ur voice
Great content kim.
life saver
Super
oh my god ,ur videos are so funny !easy to study
That's the idea! This one is even more fun: ruclips.net/video/4ES4EYZL4GY/видео.html
Hi Kim. New to your channel and I subscribed. I just want to ask you a help. I want to overcome my tounge and pronunciation and lose my native accent
Thank you
Welcome to my channel, Erika! You're off to a great start by focusing on pitch in order to help you improve your accent. The number one step I can recommend is to practice word and sentence stress. You can get started with this playlist: ruclips.net/p/PL81YJkck6j1vHrMoHzzgti7vMwqzjwWwZ or sign up for my free Stress Starter Kit on my website: englishwithkim.com/ssk/ 😀
I red some English articals and they say there are 4 levels of English pitch: 1-Low Pitch,2- Neutral Pitch, 3-High Pitch and 4-Extra High Pitch.the two examples :lo LO lo,re re RE.I guess LO and RE are the 3-High Pitch,but I am so struggling that lo lo re re are 1-Low Pitch or 2- Neutral Pitch.let me try to describe more details : the word "intonation" ,the stressed syllables na is 3-High Pitch but what about the unstressed in and ton and tion syllables, they should be 1-Low Pitch or 2- Neutral Pitch. My question is :what time is the 1-Low Pitch or the 2- Neutral Pitch for the syllable ? And the sentence :it's the first day of thirty days American accent challenge and I feel really great .which syllables should be 1-Low Pitch or 2- Neutral Pitch. I feel like it's a stupid question,but I think I got stuck here.If you could help ,that would be really great and grateful.
I explain the four main pitch levels in this video (at the timestamp I've included): ruclips.net/video/4ES4EYZL4GY/видео.html In the practice examples with "lo LO lo" / "re re RE" you're moving between neutral pitch and high pitch. We hit the low pitch when using falling intonation at the end of statements and information questions. We hit the extra high pitch on focus words in thought groups and full sentences, and also when using rising intonation. Once you watch the other video, see if you can figure out the right pitch levels for your example.
Can this help with voice acting ?
Check out my response to your other comment. I find that the only way to see if these exercises help is to experiment with them. A lot of my videos *are* a result of experiments working with people who need to explore pitch and their voice.
I like Kim
Thanks!
I want to know which word in a sentence is stressed first if there is noun verb adjective adverb
It depends on the sentence and the context. We stress the most important words in a thought group, which are often nouns, but may be any other content word depending on your meaning. The first step is to be sure you're stressing all content words, before working on the different levels of stress and breaking your ideas into thought groups. Have you seen my video on sentence stress? ruclips.net/video/EDdmqlarRQA/видео.html
Isn't it a lot easier to have a native talk to you, pay attention to the way that person sound and then trying to emulated how that person sounds? (I'm doing exactly that right at this very moment).
Listening to and imitating a native speaker whose voice and intonation you like is a great option. You can also listen to podcast interviews and do the same thing. There are many possible ways to work on your stress and intonation. These particular exercises are about consciously increasing the control of your pitch. Those glides can be challenging for people to hear or say on one syllable words.
Could I ask you question?
If a word has one,two or more stress how do we stress the words in a sentence? I am confuse
Each word has one syllable that receives primary stress, which means it's the longest, louder, and highest in pitch. We emphasize the key words of a sentence using sentence stress. This means we'll stress the stressed syllables of stressed words. This video will help: ruclips.net/video/EDdmqlarRQA/видео.html
@@Englishwithkim Thank you so much
Hi, I am Krishna from India. I can read, understand and write but can't speak. So please help, what should I do to speak English.
Or is it possible that i will speak in English?
Hi Krishna! Do you have regular opportunities to speak with people in English? When I was learning Spanish, I could read, understand, and write quite well, but wasn't able to speak until I immersed myself in Spanish (by moving to Argentina to study) and my brain was able to connect all that information to speaking.
If you don't have many opportunities to interact with English speakers, I suggest you try some of these exercises (they are the ones I used to become more fluent): ruclips.net/video/P6UXuOIqTA0/видео.html
Please trust that all the work you've done to learn the language will help you when you need to speak!
your channel is oppressed, you have only about 4000 subscribers
you have to have at least 1,000,000
That's kind of you to say! All it takes is one viral video for a channel to explode. 😉
I felt obligated to say "Yes ma'am" Lmao.
Why's that?
@@Englishwithkim the way you talk I guess
you're brilliant
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Kim do you offer 1 on 1 Skype coaching ?
Yes, I work one-to-one with clients on Skype. I've also created in-depth courses based on my one-to-one coaching programs. You can learn more at my website: englishwithkim.com/work-with-me/ Feel free to send me a message via my website with your questions!
Hi Kim, how are you?
I'm doing well - thanks for asking :)
English with Kim you always welcome
I love you
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It’s so hard I couldn’t get it :(
That is completely normal as you start learning how to use your pitch. You may need to train your ear to hear the differences, so try this video for more guidance: ruclips.net/video/X8S17no_g3Y/видео.html
So I do need to master pitches, don't I?
What the heck is this - some kind of baseball pitching class? (Just kidding).
Visualizing the arc of a baseball pitch could be helpful! 😉
Hi Kim, would you like to listen the 2 sentences(ruclips.net/video/CLaF_gdtRgE/видео.html)? my question is "the stress pitch method of "largest" sounds like not same, what's the difference in English?" thanks
Interesting examples! The stress on "largest" is the same in both of these examples (LARGest). The first speaker is stressing the word a bit higher in pitch, relative to the rest of the words in the sentence. The second speaker is stressing the word, but the pitch rise is relative to his own voice and overall pitch levels. Otherwise, you can hear differences in how they speak, but it doesn't change the stress pattern.
It sounds like the first stress method used to the head of a sentence. for example, Dogs eat bones.(D/ogs e\at b/\ones).(dogs, the first method ; bones, the second method. if they are switched, like D/o\gs e\at b/o
es. is it natural for native speaker? @@Englishwithkim
Do you speak portuguese?
Yes, I speak Portuguese conversationally, although right now I understand much more than I can speak.
@@Englishwithkim Cool, I'm from Brazil.
Sorry,
I don't know why you have uploaded this lesson. I need examples to understand what you are trying to teach. Not very helpful.
Whether a video is helpful for you depends on what you are hoping to learn from it. This video is about pitch steps and glides for people who are specifically looking for this type of practice. If you are looking for a more general overview of how pitch works (with lots of examples), check out this video: ruclips.net/video/iy3L1vzCCkc/видео.html This video on exploring your pitch is more in depth: ruclips.net/video/AED6n4bEqEE/видео.html