The Melody of English

Intonation & Primary Phrase Stress for the American Accent

4.95 (148 reviews)
Udemy
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English
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13,468
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3 hours
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Jan 2024
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$59.99
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What you will learn

Learn proper breathing techniques for connected speech

Learn how to divide vowels and glide up and down with them smoothly

Learn intonation patterns and functions

Learn which words to stress the most: primary phrase stress

Description

Intonation signals to your audience that you are connecting thought units or ending them.  Sometimes we end them with finality, uncertainty, questions, or excitement, for example.   Intonation helps listeners follow you with ease.  Intonation also gives language a melody and keeps it from sounding boring.  This course will teach you proper breathing that works in sync with your intonation.  You will also learn how to divide vowels so that the vowels can carry the intonation.  Then you will apply the vowel movement knowledge to intonation patterns .  Finally you will learn how we use intonation to highlight the most important word in a chunk of information, and how to pick the most important word so that your listeners can easily follow you.  Each video lesson invites you to either repeat a word or phrase after the instructor or repeat along with the instructor. The lessons include instructor explanation and examples, along with charts, intonation drawings and stress markings so that you can see what you are hearing.  The course is accompanied by written lessons that you can print out and use to follow along and take notes.  After each lesson, you are invited to use the repetition audio provided to build muscle memory of your newly developed skills.  The more you use the repetition audio the better!   There are extra sentences in the repetition audio that are not in the videos, for extra exposure and practice.  The instructor is always making new lessons to add , so the course will grow with you.  Your feedback is invited so that the instructor can made new lessons that will be useful for you.

Content

Introduction

Introduction

Breathing

Breathing Exercise for Intonation & Connected Speech

How to Break Up Vowels for Intonation

Breaking Up Front Vowels
Breaking Up Central Vowels
Breaking Up Back Vowels
Breaking Up Moving Vowels (Diphthongs)
More Sirening Practice

Beginner Intonation & Primary Phrase Stress

Beginner Intonation Patterns
Primary Phrase Stress Foundations

Advanced Intonation

Advanced Intonation Patterns
Beginner Intonation Lession with Advanced add-ons

Advanced PPS- exceptions

Noun Constructions
Noun constructions Review
Context-Setting Adverbials and Strong Adjectives/Adverbs
Parentheticals

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Reviews

Dhanush
August 9, 2023
The sirening when you glide up and down with each vowel is more difficult than it sounds. So I practice the breathing video first and sirening immediately after. It is like a workout.
Riya
August 9, 2023
Well done! I thought it would overlap with your other courses but it really doesn’t. You have so much to offer us.
Sameedha
August 8, 2023
I learned we use the vowels to shape the musicality of the sentence. So this class reviews vowels also- but differently than the vowels course. Also you don’t have to be Chinese to take the vowels for Chinese course.
Alka
August 6, 2023
I listen to the stories and the explanations of intonation and stress. It has helped me understand how to deliver a story.
Abdoulaye
August 3, 2023
wow this course is so unique. I have studied a lot of English and never heard of vowel division before. It is very interesting and makes sense.
Teresa
May 27, 2023
I suggest this course for everyone who wants to have natural sounding intonation. This is the ups and downs in the voice. You will learn when and how and why.
Tony
May 27, 2023
Ok sirening is difficult. I will practice as I see it is my weakness. It should help to smoothly rise and fall.
Susan
May 26, 2023
I am trying to learn how to drop in pitch. I find it is easier to rise. Maybe my bad habit to rise too much. Good practice material here
James
May 25, 2023
Hearing how to read the math equations and phone numbers helps me understand how to read any sentences now. Highly recommend!!
Esther
May 25, 2023
This is the first time I learn about primary phrase stresses. Useful details helps me to speak better
Brian
May 22, 2023
Very useful. More practice stories, dialogues, situations please. Examples where you correct students also
Shawna
May 21, 2023
I definitely didn’t do intonation right. This helps to copy teacher as she rises, drops, glides and she explains when to do it
Fahima
November 13, 2022
Yes it's really a good match for me especially at this point of my career. I have always wanted to have.
Hande
November 13, 2022
Sheila Lebedenko is very talented. She knows how to furnish students with the right apparatuses to rapidly learn.
Pablo
November 13, 2022
This course raises our grasping, certainty and abilities to a higher level. I truly partook in this course.

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