Emphasis of Content & Focus Words in American English

[@bahramfdelgoshaei545]

Honestly, you are one of the best and most dedicated teacher on earth. This comes from a faculty member who has taught ESL for many years...

[@JillDiamond]

That means a lot coming from a colleague @bahram f delgoshaei. Thank you.

[@bhikkhudhammagaru1645]

I really appreciate your kind dedication for the students. You are a great teacher. Actually, you're a Diamond for students. May you be well, happy and peaceful.

[@Anandkewl]

This is one of the most important aspects to become a good speaker.Stressing on the content words correctly is making a big difference indeed for me ! Thanks for the upload !

[@JillDiamond]

You are welcome Anand. I think when we speak a second language it is easy to focus on every sound and word instead of remembering that language is used to communicate. That means, we have to do the job of delivering the words with most significance. Glad you got it!

[@alfredodelcarpio4283]

@@JillDiamond which city are you from in the usa Jill Diamond? and which city in the US you think has the clearest accent? Thanks

[@JillDiamond]

@@alfredodelcarpio4283 I was born in New Haven, Connecticut. As far as which city has the clearest accent, every person would tell you something different. Usually the clearest is the city we were born in. Everything else sounds foreign. For someone who speaks English as a second language, again, it really depends what you've listened to the most. Some people like to say that the mid-west has the clearest accent.

[@alfredodelcarpio4283]

@@JillDiamond Thanks indeed for replayed it. I know all this stereotypes spinning around our mind. I heard that people from Texas are more family oriented and California is the opposite and so on. I am subscribed to your channel. Regards from Peru

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[@JillDiamond]

You understand perfectly JH. That is so great. You can keep working on your pronunciation, but the native English-speaker's brain needs to hear the rhythm and melody first and can correct and sounds that are mispronounced. However, the opposite is not true. So, really glad you get it! More videos coming...Thanks for watching.

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[@mimi64231]

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[@JillDiamond]

@Uyên Hoàng, I'd like to say GREAT EAR! You definitely heard that he went up in intonation at the end of the -WH question when he should have gone down. I must have been excited by his emphasis on content words that I overlooked the intonation in that instant. Great catch!

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[@JillDiamond]

I don't know how I missed this special message from a couple of years ago @heathersisto1119. Thank you so much! I hope that you have had a chance to see more and that we can meet one day soon!

[@heathersisto1119]

@@JillDiamond Good morning , Mrs Jill , the Great teacher of speech that I had always wondered how person with such greatness in their communication language and it was not until I learn ed of your videos that created more than an eager to want to learn and that eager to learn the many ways to be able to have such eloquence with words as you have so natural with such as much class in teaching it and the right amount of seriousness for student such a as myself to say focus and say as serious as possible with such attempt when I do put more learning into it with your video and the additional sayings of me letting my son's know about your teachings because they allowance much of everything that requires such things as my thoughts like what the students in the classes are keatning first hand with you and yes , I do think that I am just as fortunate as others on the tube being able to view such a great learning with language And I can not stress enough how many years I have admired so many people with such class in language and I have you thank for me learning with so many many years of wonder how great conversationalist and professionals person's training to what all I learned here in your tutorials of learning Yes , I never knew how when I would be in classes or anywhere and notice clear spoken languages and the stresses on words I would be admiring them and they not even know , how much I wondered such class and ability to stress words like certain person's are able to do and I learn how all those I admire for being those person's do it , it's stress or stresses onto certain words and the many different pattern ways I somewhat recall in the video learned here and I must say my on going health conditions of years and a continuous of conditions with great care and my only ability to study and focus on many subjects with an ability of only part time studies with mutlple subjects and my most difficult of all of them are my sentence structures and when I say I struggle I do but I try with a I can method and in part of information to assist and gather for making my writing of sentences alit more functional and with these videos I have with so much desire but I know I have to have these studies with more of an elective for myself because required studies and what I admire in language in communication like these learning tutorials I shall continue to watch but have been speanfing so much need to better focus on the sentences and not letting that defeat me because if I can not say it in correct structure with needed sentences for what I admire to do in conversation ; I belive, I would be doing to much with things that I do with building memory issues that are fog and many many years ago was even worse but language and the many ways to communicate are my focus and the studies I try so much for better grades in all that I admire about language which is how you teach it and how you are providing something to people that I do not know if they know the kindness to such teachings because the many years before how I inquired at many sifferwnt school about what you teach and did not even know how to explain what it was I was trying to say what I was in such amazement to want to be able to do someday too And with not saying to much in the chatroom class to not seem like a chatter or what I do not say as good be ause my structure is writing is continuous in sentence structure and where I focus most to achieve before everything else and the uncountable years to be able to say these fractions of thinking to structure words not sure to if it's as I try to say but receiving your text and not realizing you had not is not the best of receiving it A remind to me like with the other areas I try to be of too with communication of language as you explain in the videos which reminds me to view your video more often this year too as many times as possible to which parts that I can learn in video and all of everything else I think when noticing the student who have first hand teachings is so lucky in ways my words are not as I would want to be able to say , the sentencing part ...my main focus are the sentences in structure and better grades in the areas and then in bits I notice how much more am able to comprehend when , viewing the video's you do have as learning tutorials that is so valuable and if I were able to explain how I know from many schools asked questions to what you are teaching Your learning tutorials are phenomenal of I spelled that correctly or said it incorrect because vocabulary is a focus too and if I spelled in incorrectly and not meaning too the one words that is a superlative of greatness with what you teach in you learning tutiorals it's been a while but gonna tune in for some more of language learning that is , in your videos and with that said , just want to say words to the year... The New and a Happy New Year to you and eveyone with a smile of love to all and any struggling studies that know how much learning goes into trying in many parts of language that is difficult to explain and those sentences and stress I words like said in these learning videos ! ...these videos are so valuable and building words structure for ways to say it and know what is being taught in these video are so valuable ...and with additional want to thank you and all of your skills your skills are so amazing is more and am gonna build the vocabulary much better to to match what I try to learn too And don't know if I said to much but was happy to notice the text from you so thank you for that too And want to say happy New year again to you and everyone, plus certain struggling person's of students or just trying to communicate better too and learning the difference with that too All students this kind of learning can explain like I would prefer but it's a value to communication not often explained in schools or most social communications of professionalism or not it's most values and I admired it for more years than I know how to say and gonna get my learning studies here with your great videos as often as my many studies and many ongoing health conditions allow me because these are great learning tutorial learning videos ...gonna trying communications in an additional video when I tune into learn your great ways with learning to communicate as you explain in your videos Thank you with appreciation and strength too... Again , Happy New Year to you great teacher Jill and all the many people trying as students or communication with words and , or language plus who know what I try to say and what I mean to all 🎉Happy New Year !

[@JillDiamond]

@@heathersisto1119 WOW! You write beautifully. Thank you for everything. I wish you a marvelous 2023 and appreciate your being here!

[@heathersisto1119]

@@JillDiamond Thank you so much for the compliment because I study so much with English because it has been a repeat subject for me for way to many years but I don let that get in the way I just keep focusing on all that strengthens my ability to learn and your channel is one that provides me strength to an area of goals and when I achieve 8n the most required part of English , I then plane to attempt at the part of English that enhance the professional parts of communication which I believe your teachings provide too It's such a pleasure to have received a comment from you and that made my day too and as I try to say earlier in this chat of communication . My focus is the required in sentence structure and it's been alit of studying but I just keep learning part time that is only for reasons of my health only allowing no more than part time study but I waste none of those study hours and I do plane to continue to watch your videos to keep the punctuation and ways to stress certain words because I never know but I don't want to get side teach of learning those not easy sentences and cohesion with writing plus the many required books to read along with all of subjects so i focus on comprehension in reading to try and win innmost subjects so I can reach the speech goals in these videos And I also would like to say Happy 2023 ! To you too and all those that have the advanced opportunity to learn with you and from you their learning are more than they might realize and happy for them but I gotta focus on these sentences and reading comprehension and tend to chat threwout the year or watch your videos too Just focusing on reading , writing and grammar structure and after that I am gonna be trying to be like students who learn from you and all you teach in words , your teachings are amazing Thank you , and chat to learn from video inbetween my scheadule learning again Thank you ! 😊

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[@JillDiamond]

Thank you very much for your comment Je Si. Hope you'll come back for more! Jill

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[@chrisdianda6204]

Hey Ms Diamond. Since a single sentence can express different feelings and attitudes depending on the word that receives the stress whether the word is content or structured, I would be very grateful if you could expand on it with more examples shifting the stress and explain the feelings and attitudes related. Thanks.

[@JillDiamond]

This is a great idea @Mbuyi Dianda. I will put it on my list for my upcoming recordings!

[@accentology]

Jill we LOVE your videos!!!!!!!! :)

[@JillDiamond]

Amazing! Where do you teach? You are a team?

[@accentology]

@@JillDiamond we’re based in London! We do accent reduction (pronunciation and prosody, etc) but I also work as a voice therapist in a hospital - we love your videos, and I love watching the ones with individual clients working on emphasis, thought chinking, melody… they’re all really entertaining! And you’re so enthusiastic and positive!! :)

[@JillDiamond]

@@accentology I love meeting people in the same field. We need to stand together. Thanks a million for watching and liking the videos. Drop me an email if you'd like to have a chat one day soon. I'm at [e-mail]. I'd love to speak with you both! Keep up your great work.

[@accentology]

@@JillDiamond oh that’s great!! Thanks so much! It would be great to chat!! I’ll email you!! :)

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[@mohamedfahad2364]

Thank you Jill for your passion and insights. Though, I'd like to know because I've learned in other textbooks that when it comes to statements (affirmative sentences) pitch should be descending in the end (the only time, the pitch is ascending is when it's a an open question). Nevertheless, here you advise to get higher in pitch in the end. can you explain? thank you

[@JillDiamond]

First we go up on the focus word and then descend. So you are correct that affirmative sentences should end downward, but you have to emphasize the focus word first and it usually is near or at the end.Hope that helps Fahad and thanks for watching.

[@mohamedfahad2364]

Accent Ace Thanks Jill! You're such a heaven in this troubled world. Greetings from Comoros

[@ngqvgiversgain5731]

Dear Ms. Jill, Thank you for your very helpful videos. I just have a question about the MEANING of "FOCUS WORD": Is "FOCUS WORD" the last content word of a THOUGHT GROUP (THOUGHT CHUNKING) *OR* a SENTENCE? So, which of the following way is the correct way? 1) They hardly notice the time / when they work in *TEAMS. (TEAMS* = FOCUS WORD) 2) They hardly notice the *TIME* / when they work in *TEAMS. (TIME, TEAMS* = FOCUS WORDS) I am looking forward to your reply,

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Great! That's who you are, a great teacher. Wish you could teach me..

[@uyenhoang1736]

Dear Ms.Jill, Thank you for your all useful lessons, they improve my speaking skill so much. But i just have one question in this lesson. It's about Wh-Question : "What time is the meeting on curriculum development?" I think it should have been "falling pitch" in word "development" as a lesson Intonation you taught. So why your student said it in "Raising pitch" and you say it's right and perfect?

[@sfmommyof3boys]

Jill you are an excellent teacher! Love the clarity on your voice and the way you explain everything. Keep up the great work!

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You are a gifted TEACHER,

[@Ulver-cm]

What a good teacher? Excellent. I wish you lived in Costa Rica, so that I'd hire you to teach me. Thank you very much. Awfully nice of you.

[@JillDiamond]

Thanks Christian. Don't forget we offer online training too! Contact us (www.accentace.com/#!contact/c1d94) if you are interested in learning more and thanks again for being so enthusiastic about the video! Jill

[@jeni-yaguar]

very useful lessons! good teacher I will see more videos like this

[@bigass197]

Great videos. For Emphasis#5 What if you are emphasizing for a question towards a specific 2nd person?Like in "why , do YOOOUUU?"

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[@ibraham27]

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[@JillDiamond]

You are very welcome.

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[@edinsantic3077]

Dear Jill, I am writing you from the country that, it could be, you have never heard for, but isn't that part brilliant? With your knowledge and extraterrestrial teaching skills you are leaving an unforgettable impression about yourself and your job, i dare to say, all over the world. There is no word, nor the sentence, which would be enough to describe my thankfulness and gratefulness to you. It would make me enormous happy if there is any way how we can exchange a couple of personal messages, since there is a couple of things, regarding to my English language, that i would like to ask you. Maybe you could make a lesson about that later, who knows, its about diction and pronunciation. Kind regards

[@JillDiamond]

Thank you Edin. Very kind. Please email me at [e-mail] and I will get back to you. Best, Jill

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[@princeoculoplastico]

Thank you Prof. Jill, you are beautiful. I think these topics are very important as they are not approached regularly in English classes and because they are not easy to learn or put in practice. Could we have small assignments that help us to grab these concepts? Could you tell us if there is an order to watch all your videos? Could we see in your videos a non native speaker improves his/her speech after your classes? notice that in this last question I did my gliding.

[@JillDiamond]

Idel Fernandez I like your suggestion for assignments. I am going to work on some videos that include that. Also, I'll think about how to incorporate more of the improvements from my learners. In the meantime, watch the Intonation Practice with Scales and Sirens for more practice with intonation. I also like to send people to www.americanrhetoric.com to find videos and text of speeches from well-known Americans. You can listen to some diverse voices by checking out some videos of George Clooney, Bill Clinton and Steve Jobs to name just a few. Try mimicking what you like. Good luck and hope you'll keep watching Idel.

[@princeoculoplastico]

Thank you very much for your time, the idea of the improvements in your learners is like the evidence we seek to be closer to a native speaker. I think it would help if there were some clear intonation rules from the basic to the advanced level, to gradually build a better speech, and based on that some type of exercises about common situations to apply and retain what was already learnt. I am really interested in this topic as I find it difficult for me. I am reviewing the rethoric website, thank you again.

[@JillDiamond]

+Idel Fernandez You can start by understanding the intonation patterns of the five sentence types in English. Check out our video on the topic here kzbin.info/www/bejne/gHzMiYKapNZ4rLc

[@princeoculoplastico]

Thank you very much.

[@JillDiamond]

Glad you watched. Hoping it is helping!

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I like the way her teach, she is very good, I'm glad I found her channel However my advise is tro try to show the blackbord more often. I think the person is filming need to be a better job, thanks for the lessons.

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Thanks for sharing

[@qifanwu551]

Thanks for this great video! I have a question, though, what's the focus word in a negative question? like, can't you speak english? haven't you bought the tickets? Thanks!

[@JillDiamond]

+Evan Wu In those two cases it would be English and tickets. When they are closed questions like that, it tends to be the last content word and this case it is those two. Remember to keep the intonation up at the very end too!

[@qifanwu551]

+Accent Ace Thanks, but sometimes I heard people putting most stress/focus on can't and haven't, these two words have the highest pitch, so I'm confused. So you're saying that english and tickets should have the highest pitch and the intonation goes up after english and tickets?

[@JillDiamond]

+Evan Wu Context is so important when talking about intonation. There are times that the auxiliary can't or haven't might get stressed, but if it is a standard statement or question, we wouldn't emphasize the auxiliary.

[@ADVANCEDENGLISHSCHOOL]

Should we emphasise "whatever" in sentences?

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[@AngeloPoulis22]

When you read a book or a text, you can decide..let's say easier the focus words..but when you are not a native and you speak real time and fast in a conversation, you have to think all the time which content word you have to stress more,or which one of them is a focus word,and you end up either stressing everything or you stress wherever just not to sound flat or sound more like american. Is there any tip for realtime speaking? i know practice and practice and experience..i mean a tip to gain that experience faster, apart from practicing all the time..cause again even when i practice all the time, i don't know if i stress and emphasize the correct focus words, or if i stress more than the necessary ones...so you have to have a native speaker next to you all the time to confirm that you are stressing right. i am so close to the american accent..and when i start talking, i am thinking which focus word i have to stress the whole time..even when i listen to youtube dialogues, some people choose to stress adverbs more, others the verbs more,or adjectives more..so as i have understood there is not only one correct way to say/stress a line with an american accent...right? as en example in ur line "they hardly notice time when they work in teams" teams is the focus word..but someone else could stress more the work "hardly" depending what you want to say..they hardly and not easily..so again its another rule now for the same phrase.and you can apply the same for every word in the same phrase depending what you want to emphasize..choosing in real time what you want to emphasize is the problem for me...i know it has to be logical but with a new accent sometimes it isn't. too much information you know what i mean..and a last ex.notice how you say at the endof the video 14.05 "you really gonna grab the audience" you don't stress the word audience even if this is the last content word of your sentence/statement..right? so i realized that when we read a text we stress differently or we sound different that when we speak in a normal conversation..thank you

[@JillDiamond]

Remember there is a rule that says after a subject is introduced it can be any word in the phrase or sentence that is the focus word. So, in the example of grab the audience, the subject has been on the table and then any word becomes available to stress. Another thing I'd like to mention so that you feel good about reading out loud is that the more you read and practice stress, the more flexible you will become while you speak spontaneously. So, even though you have to think all the time when you speak, the reading exercise does influence your ability to get stronger at impromptu speaking. Thanks for your comments! Very insightful.

[@AngeloPoulis22]

Accent Ace thank you very much!

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[@daofufu023]

Jill,when we meet the PROPER NOUNS and descriptive phrase,whether need to stress all of this? THX

[@JillDiamond]

We do emphasize people's names and nouns. We don't generally emphasize pronouns Mai. Regarding descriptive phrases, it depends. Feel free to give me an example. Thanks for watching! Jill

[@daofufu023]

Jill,thanks for your reply. I means Proper Nouns not pronouns,such as Fifth Avenue ,zinc oxide,which one word should accept stress,the other one need stress slight or no ? The descriptive phrases: a gray hound an old key a nice watch a sharp knife I have something else need your help. when we meet following patterns,what should we do adj/adv+adj thank you very much!

[@JillDiamond]

+mai zi We tend to stress the nouns in these phrases. a gray HOUND; an old KEY; a nice WATCH; a sharp KNIFE. Hope that helps.

[@abrahamfridds871]

she's so lovely , i love it

[@javieruriel]

It's possible to reach your level of fluency or a native fluency?

[@JillDiamond]

I like to call it native-like fluency. With enough practice, you can get close. But I don't like to suggest elimination ever. Plus, it is super hard. Thanks for writing Frank.

[@javieruriel]

Thanks for answer, I really like your videos.

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[@Eugennil]

It is like the beginning of adult movie.

[@t.b.3511]

I am confused. .... "Diffcult Decision" is a focus thought group (as adjective-noun).. so the focus word should the "DIFFUCULT" and it sounds more natural to ear. Am I wrong?

[@JillDiamond]

I call them word partnerships and we emphasize the first noun in these types of pairs T.B. Thus, "decision" and not "difficult". I hope that helps.

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[@HBKing95]

Why the word "when" is constantly changing or circled. is it a content word?

[@JillDiamond]

+Johan Rivera It is a content word!

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[@rogerpenna]

doesn´t this work exactly the same in ALL languages, or at least, in all indo-european languages? you can probably translate from let's say portuguese to english and keep the same words emphasized.

[@JillDiamond]

Some languages are stress-timed and others syllable-timed. That is the biggest difference with regards to emphasis. This is an interesting explanation esl.fis.edu/grammar/langdiff/portuguese.htm. Thanks for your comment Roger.

[@libertdeanda9023]

I hated that guy

[@ezequiel2272]

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[@aaronbogatch548]

She teaches in a very complicated unnecessary way. People should learn a foreign language like a child does. Does a child learn a language in a complicated way? No.

[@mohamedfahad2364]

Except the guy is not a kid but a grown man.

[@mottahead6464]

I don't totally agree with you, but I get what you mean. What she is trying to teach the guy is extremely difficult for adults to learn. It's like trying to change "the musicality" of one's speech. A native English speaking child learns that from an early age and that is reinforced every single day by his or her interactions with other native speakers. That's why me, as a non-native, I do believe that we should try to improve the way we speak, perhaps soften our thick accents, yet getting rid of them and speaking like a native born ..... simply not realistic. Yet, I think that we should try.

[@Junhishiryu]

"public speakers know how to emphasize word"... you didn't emphasize the "word" part LOL

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This would be great video if there is not that student and i would not have to waste my time to listen to his trying....but gave thumb up because you Jill are an amazing teacher anyway! I love your lessons! Thank you so much!