Master Intonation - Learn American Pronunciation and Reduce Your Accent

This is the final lesson in my intonation series! Review all the intonation patterns through two exercises. Test your comprehension and improve your mastery of intonation.
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Topic: Contrast and Emphasis
Index:
0:01 Can you understand what my intonation means?
1:48 Lesson title
1:58 Exercise 1: identify the pattern/ listen and repeat
7:55 Exercise 2: listen to the text/ repeat
9:08 Suggested practice
9:31 Lesson ending
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A stressed syllable means your voice generally gets louder, your pitch is higher, and the stressed vowel sound is longer. (Louder, higher, longer) I have some short videos that might help. Here's one. kzbin.info/www/bejne/pGq9npycibh7etE

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