Rhythm in English Speaking (How People Really Speak English)

[@wh0tube]

I sound foreign, I look foreign, and now I’m going around clapping my hands when talking to people! 😄👍

[@teayima]

😂

[@Grateful4life4time]

😂

[@briselegere]

🤣

[@blondelp8451]

nothing wrong with happy clapping 😀

[@blondelp8451]

sounds good to me

[@greywaver]

I am now 63 years old and have been learning English since I was 10. I have had many teachers and coaches, even went to an international language school in the south of England. But nobody taught me THAT, even though it's so easy. Great video.

[@craftah]

that's like the basic thing to know, how the accent works, the syllables etc

[@speakenglishwithrupert]

I'm so glad I can help you and I apologize that me and my fellow English teachers haven't shown you this before 👍🙂

[@Kameleonic]

You clearly had crap teachers. Every teacher I've worked with for decades teaches phonological features of English, just like this.

[@elisabethastrom4598]

Interesting! I'm from Sweden and when I lived in the USA I got the accent down so well nobody believed I wasn't native. I always explaned it was because I'm a singer and had figured out the "melody" of the it. I wasn't far off. 😅

[@pick_pick_pick]

Thats true :) your talented.

[@sebumpostmortem]

Soooo true. Having basic knowledge of sol-fa is key. As a spanish, I needed to learn how to say "I' m sorry, I don' t speak swedish" and "hungarian". Make your sentence fit in a 4/4 beat and done✨. I sounded so native that, in spite of saying I do NOT, people kept on talking in swedish and hungarian. As soon as I said it with spanish prosody (yet perfect phonetics), they switched to english. Also, chinese tones are just nothing but musical notes😅

[@joannabanas5516]

Spanish accent can be spotted imediately...

[@SusanaXpeace2u]

I used to think Swedish, Norwegian and Danish all sounded the same. But then I heard the difference. For an English speaker, Swedish is like a Co Cork accent. Norwegian is a Birmingham accent and Danish is a Cockney accent! Now you can tell them apart i

[@Rachel-iStockholm]

And I'm from the USA living in Sweden.....wish me luck 😅

[@ASKTVOfficial]

At last, after 24 years learning the language, I finally got to the right place for explanation. It was right under my nose the entire time.

[@speakenglishwithrupert]

I'm delighted that I could help! If you're interested in the grammar side of English, by the way, I have a sister KZbin channel "English with Rupert" 🙂

[@molly1117]

Im an american trying to learn french, and i never noticed this rhythm in English. Now i’m wondering which languages use the syllable rhythm?

[@sednonsatia]

​@@molly1117 Japanese is one of them.

[@fuzzzone]

@@molly1117 Most Romance languages, including French, are generally thought of as syllable timed. Germanic languages are generally thought of as stress timed. I say "generally thought of as" because there's debate in linguistics as to whether this is really a thing. In practice, there are circumstances where "syllable timed" language speakers use stress timing, and vice versa.

[@Calicoco_49]

@@molly1117 French is one ;)

[@obsidianwinters5857]

0:08 The first example reminded me of those AI voices. You can always tell they're 'off', but I'd never really known why. Thanks for finally giving me the reason.

[@speakenglishwithrupert]

Yes, absolutely! They haven't mastered everything that a human does when speaking, at least yet!

[@TioDeive]

That's the clearest and most useful explanation about rhythm in English. Thank you.

[@speakenglishwithrupert]

Thank you! I appreciate the kind comment 🙂

[@Cobalt1520]

​@@speakenglishwithrupert I actually didn't quite understand. I'm portuguese. Portuguese from Portugal is considered to be stressed timed, while Portuguese from Brasil is considered to be syllable timed. So I think acentuation dependes on the accent of the place from where people come from, and no the language itself. EDIT: nevermind, I noticed on the video description you are talking about Native English.

[@enricoginelli3405]

I'm Italian and have been studying English for years, reaching a fairly advanced level. This was enlightening. Thank you, sir.

[@barbara6204]

I am italian too, I live in a very international environment and everyone loves my italian accent 😂

[@vibekered7784]

​@@barbara6204As they should🤗😁

[@evercuriousmichelle]

Is Italian more a syllable timed language?

[@barbara6204]

@evercuriousmichelle I have no idea 😅, once I lived in germany for some 5 years with little contact with italians, it was German all day long and after some 3 years when I heard someone speaking italian nearby, I started hearing the "music" that the italian language makes (I remember I loved it and was surprised how nice it was) . But that was the only time I could hear it. Later, I lived with more italians around and so I stopped hearing the " music". I think it is because I am native Italian, I just understand the words and the language is so familiar that I don't really hear it.

[@speakenglishwithrupert]

Thanks so much for the lovely comment :)

[@phamtanduc9477]

Nearly 40 years ago in Saigon, Dr. Hoang Thach Thiet introduced us to rhythm reading, a fresh and inspiring way to engage with English. Decades have passed, and though he is no longer teaching, the memory of his guidance endures. Alongside the lasting impressions of our devoted college teachers, his influence remains vivid, a timeless bloom in the garden of our past.

[@flecktrain]

❤

[@tranquocthanh949]

Thanks for sharing this, sir

[@yikes7607]

I also still remember some very few teachers, the ones that were especially charismatic and good dedicated professionals who had clever ways of passing the knowledge. Some of them really influenced me, I feel lucky to have been their student.

[@GlenysWilliams-wy2hj]

English has been my first language for all my life, this is the first time I have heard this explanation.

[@9fa4108f]

I remember telling an American friend of mine that words following start, stop, and finish usually take "-ing" at the end. She was like, "WHAT? How did I not notice that?" 🤣

[@speakenglishwithrupert]

There's so many things we learn without realising about our native language! When I started teaching English 25 years ago I found that my students knew much more about my language then I did :)

[@fuzzzone]

@@9fa4108f eh... that's not really true though. Sure, gerunds follow those words frequently but it's as common for them to be followed by an article and a noun. Stop the car. Start the timer. Finish the dishes.

[@anthonybodineau3398]

@@speakenglishwithrupert "then I did" or "than I did" :D

[@johngodbey2365]

I teach Japanese people English. This is s very clean explanation of a fundamental concept. It occurred to me that in your first example that you dropped the pitch of your voice slightly on the stresses, but did not say them louder or longer as we would in conversation. When native speakers are reading out loud it sounds exactly like this. The problem with teaching proper English stress is that the learner must be at a level to speak in a flow of words, not constructing a sentence from pieces of their accessible vocabulary. By the time the learner has reached this stage, the habit of saying each syllable clearly has already been established and is very hard to correct. Many native speakers admire their English, saying “You speak better English than I do!” because it sounds like they are reading from a book. I think the most we can expect is to create awareness of how stress defines the flow speech so the learner recognizes the pattern of native speakers. Memorizing scanned poetry is all good practice. But it will forever be a challenge! Sorry this was long, but it’s an important topic and you stated it very clearly.

[@speakenglishwithrupert]

Thanks for your very insightful post 👍🙂

[@V01DIORE]

Is the matter of stress on specific subject taught? I’d say that is a more important understanding than the flow. *They* didn’t steal the money - someone else did? They *didn’t* steal the money - so emphasis you are certain definitively not? They didn’t *steal* the money - so they exploited a method not to be considered stealing, or it was borrowed? They didn’t steal *the* money - they stole something equally as valuable? They didn’t steal the *money* - they perhaps stole something else but not the money?

[@TaurusMoon-hu3pd]

​@V01DIOREGreat post

[@PandaPanda-ud4ne]

@V01DIORE Yeah, that is already between grammar and style and context. What you put emphasis on. The subtext?

[@ellenfineran4798]

Wow this is a revelation to me! I'm a 54 year old native Brit and I never knew this about our language. It makes pefect sense to me but I'd just never realised! Thank you for the insight.

[@speakenglishwithrupert]

It's amazing what we do without realising, isn't it! Thanks for the comment!

[@김철수-c1k]

Woaw, as a foreigner using English as 3rd language, this tip is extremely helpful! I'm 100% certain that this channel will be another channel with 10M subscribers

[@speakenglishwithrupert]

I'll send you an expensive gift if I ever make 10 million subscribers 😂 Thanks for the lovely comment 😁

[@agata7230]

@@speakenglishwithrupert it might happen sooner than you think😍

[@mulluvenga]

I have subscribed your channel.

[@sab-ali]

O wow! I'm a non-native and probably this was the most useful video on spoken English that I've ever come across.

[@speakenglishwithrupert]

I'm glad it was that useful for you! I appreciate the comment 👍😁

[@SebR-FR]

yep, thx !!!

[@girijakrishnan6310]

I aree​@@SebR-FR

[@girijakrishnan6310]

I agree

[@jutta3378]

Wow, this is so helpful! I come from a syllable timed language and used to speak English like a little robot when I first learned it; teachers back then had no idea about teaching the rhythm of a language. I now live in Ireland where people speak very fast English peppered with a lot of colourful idioms directly translated from their native Irish language. My brother once observed that I speak much faster and at a higher pitch when I switch to English which is something I didn't know about.

[@speakenglishwithrupert]

That's really interesting - thanks for sharing! I'm so glad you found my video helpful 😊

[@BrookeLester]

On “equal time between stresses words” in stress-timed languages, this is called “isochrony,” and an interesting feature is that we don’t really give each phrase exactly equal time, but just enough that it “feels” to us like equal time.

[@speakenglishwithrupert]

That's an excellent observation. We aim to keep a rhythm, but there are often small variations that lead to precisely what you've just mentioned.

[@martincooper9982]

I’m a native speaker, and I learned something so simple that I’d never noticed before; I feel like I understand the world of languages better. Very well explained, clear and memorable.

[@speakenglishwithrupert]

Thanks so much - I'm really glad I could expand your knowledge!

[@kashmiri318]

I have been listening BBC for almost twenty years, today i got the skill.

[@speakenglishwithrupert]

That's great! Thanks for sharing 🙏

[@maanmohamad8921]

ALWAYS use TO with the verb LISTEN. = I have been listening TO the BBC

[@jrr7049]

Me too... Finally, I got it...

[@monicacruz62]

You're liquid gold sharing this video/knowledge!! Thank you SO much !❤❤❤

[@Regulus09]

This is very prominent in British accents. It ensures the listener understands the most important words even if they miss out on the less important words (grammar)

[@speakenglishwithrupert]

That's exactly why we do it, I think 😁

[@subspaceanomaly]

My experience of travelling in hippie bum areas of India and Asia is that the English people who have stayed there long term, speak the stress words only, like, I go shop. The monkeys in the recent planet of the apes films speak in a similar way. What is strange though is that the people don't even know they're doing it, their English has changed. I've also noticed it happens a bit in south London with some Iranian friends in tooting. It's less even but they're still cutting out words. For the travellers it's from trying to be understood and then getting stuck like that. Not sure what the saff London reasoning is

[@evercuriousmichelle]

Definitely true in America too

[@AguadulceDeb]

This is an excellent explanation,Rupert. I've been teaching ESL for many years and learning the correct RHYTHM is key to being understood by native speakers. Will be sharing with my students! Thanks for a great resource!

[@speakenglishwithrupert]

Thanks so much! It's lovely to hear from a fellow teacher - and I think you are absolutely right (of course!)

[@ThuyNguyen-zi5jy]

I have lived in the US for more than 30 years. This is the first time I learn about this. Thank you so so much!

[@elena79rus]

He is talking about British English. American English follows the first pattern.

[@hisham_hm]

@@elena79rus not true. American English is the same.

[@hairypotter.]

American English would be a bit different

[@ffotograffydd]

Don’t try to learn English from Americans, they get a lot of things wrong despite it being the only language many of them speak.

[@ffotograffydd]

@@hisham_hmIt really isn’t.

[@roydaroyni]

One of the simplest, yet the best, advices toward speaking English fluently. Thanks for making this video!

[@speakenglishwithrupert]

I really appreciate the kind comment! Thanks!

[@Xianne027]

I'm an ESL trainer. So glad to have found your channel. I never had a concrete rule that I could pass on to my students.

[@speakenglishwithrupert]

I am so glad I could offer something useful to you - I hope it works well with your students!

[@ryeofoatmeal]

this was NEVER been taught in school. but I took this English course for one or two years - can't remember and this was taught. when I try talking in stress timed, it felt more natural and easy 😮 rather than just rhythm felt very flat. perhaps I used these from time to time without notice. and I'm more comfortable and confident with my speech now

[@speakenglishwithrupert]

Thanks so much! I appreciate the comment! :)

[@yujimur]

This is the most useful speaking lesson I've ever learned! I wonder why nobody ever told me that! (I guess it's because the native speakers find it so natural and the non-native teachers don't know it themselves lol.)

[@jptronic]

And that's why English is a very musical language to sing and rap .

[@speakenglishwithrupert]

Yes, I imagine there's something in that! Thanks for commenting 🙂

[@rkang6531]

Most languages are like this though???

[@miguelpereira9859]

English is actually fairly terrible to sing in

[@troelspeterroland6998]

@@rkang6531 Most Germanic languages and most Slavic languages are like that but Romance languages generally aren't.

[@rkang6531]

@@troelspeterroland6998 What are you on about, almost all romance languages are great to sing or rap in, you probably just don't have enough exposure to them. Opera is LITERALLY mostly exclusively sung in romance languages

[@GreenlifeFin]

I cannot believe this! I learned more of English in this short time than in my entire life! And I am quite good in English. Omg. Brilliant lesson! Thank you.

[@wubetuagegnehu2202]

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[@speakenglishwithrupert]

I really appreciate your kind comment! 😁👍

[@AmeraAlawer]

I think it is because when it comes to learning English people like any thing other than mere grammer I find Speak English With Rupert a great find myself

[@baizamehdi4951]

your right

[@EaglekingLevi]

Subscribed because of your comment

[@simonestreeter1518]

"Your videos are improving my English INCREDIBLY. But, I am amazed THAT people don't subscribe TO this EXCELLENT educational channel. I see many trivial video CHANNELS with huge subscriptionS."

[@kaleighosborne6556]

I'm a 37yr old native Britain & watched this video because of a newly sparked interest in linguistics & i remember being taught this in various occasions in infant school (age 4-7) but it was introduced in rhythm games (often with solo clapping, percussion instruments or passing the clap) but also in around mid junior school (age 9-10) within poetry lessons. I always would have assumed this was taught to most British students and probably Americans too, in fact native English speakers in general really. And if ESOL teachers don't teach it they're really missing a trick to help their students sound more natural, as other viewers of this video are suddenly realising! Good luck learners😊

[@speakenglishwithrupert]

Thanks so much Kayleigh! As you probably expect, I agree with everything you've said. If you are a fellow English teacher, good luck to you too :)

[@Loroths]

If you're interested in linguistics you may want to note you conflated 'Britain' and 'Briton.' The former refers to the country Great Britain and the latter refers to that nationality of a given person. In short, you meant that you are a Briton. Linguistics is pretty cool but complicated.

[@I_am_who_I_am_who_I_am]

​@@Loroths🧠🩳

[@douglange6863]

Being a native speaker who taught music in Alaska for 27 years, we often created speech pieces and played the rhythm of the words on drums or other instruments in my classroom. English is a gold mine of rhythms.

[@ОксанаМ-ж5н1т]

Обожаю эту тему в английском. Интонация это то, что связывает тебя с конкретным языком. Считаю, что именно интонации меньше всего уделяется время в школе и даже в высшей. Не говоря о репетиторах

[@speakenglishwithrupert]

Thanks! I appreciate the comment! 😀

[@rulonoboev9552]

У нас меньше всего внимания уделяется произношению, какая интонация, о чём вы?.. 😂 Это только в вузах языковых проходят. А масса преподавателей не в силах различить bad - bed И вообще трудности с произношением æ и других трудных звуков.

[@kleiber1729]

Holy cow.. that's the coolest thing I've seen in a while. This reveals so much at once! Thank you so much!!!!

[@m.y.1243]

I think this is something new for me after attending the boading school in England 3 decades ago!! As a non-native english speaking pupil, I went to a special centre (it was for both foreigners and students with dyslexia) in the school to take extra english lessons, it was a really good class but they never taught me this😮 I came back to my home country for good more than 20 years ago... and now, I am gradually losing my RP accent... Thanks to internet, KZbin, and to your wonderful lessons.

[@speakenglishwithrupert]

Thanks for the lovely comment! I appreciate it!

[@philiplane108]

I was an EFL teacher for many years and taught pronunciation much along these lines, but I wish I had known the terms 'stress-timed' and 'syllable-timed' back in the day. Great video. Thank you.

[@speakenglishwithrupert]

Thanks so much!

[@hlaarche07]

The best prononciation advice ever !! Now that I heard it, it seems more obvious !!! No english teacher ever told me this !! Thank you very much !!

[@speakenglishwithrupert]

Thanks so much! I appreciate the comment! :)

[@ChelleLlewes]

I have wondered about this for *years!* I can hear that there is a difference, but I have never been able to articulate it! *Thank you!*

[@speakenglishwithrupert]

Thanks so much! I appreciate the comment! :)

[@peacockpaula4723]

I adore English and I want to speak it beautifully. I also adore the upper class conversations...I am infatuated with this😀. I can imitate it because I got a pretty good musical ear. English is like a melody especially when the upper class accent is involved🙂. Nice video and very useful, thank you for sharing🙂👍.

[@SusanaXpeace2u]

Don't try and fake that upper class accent. It's either real or it's not. It is grating to hear somebody put it on. Just speak clearly and don't pick up any accent that is *too* regional.

[@peacockpaula4723]

@SusanaXpeace2u Wow😯... that's interesting... I appreciate to know that, amazing! Thank you for the advice🙂.

[@speakenglishwithrupert]

Thanks for the comment, and I think Susana has given you good advice, too :)

[@ЭтоДрючинский]

Wow, so many years spent in constant touch and use of English - but I never ever noticed such a thing! And I never knew it either. Thank you!

[@elizabethzsoldos511]

Brilliant! I used to be an English teacher for foreigners, it would have been good to teach English speaking rhythm this way.

[@speakenglishwithrupert]

I'm always grateful when fellow teachers give me encouragement! Thanks so much for commenting 🙂

[@mastochabou62]

I am French and it's the first time this is explained to me. So I have just subscribed to your channel

[@joyinfinite518]

I'm a foreign learner of English though my language of instruction has been English. This topic is very difficult to follow for non-native language learners of English. Thanks for explaining lucidly. ❤

[@Mr.Azrael-bi3wi]

Would you like to practice with me

[@speakenglishwithrupert]

I'm delighted that this has been helpful!

[@xiaocaoz]

Omg, what a brilliant observation/discovery! I mouth dropped and subscribed right after!

[@speakenglishwithrupert]

I'm so glad this was useful for you!! Welcome to the channel :)

[@LisaSergeeva]

​@@speakenglishwithrupert, phonetics;)))

[@helenbum8680]

Many thanks to my University teachers, who explained it many years ago. And now I teach my studnts to do the same.

[@speakenglishwithrupert]

Thanks so much! I appreciate the comment! It's great to hear from a fellow teacher :)

[@fruzsinaguba5821]

I hit the jackpot with this video! Thank you so much! I’ve been focusing on spoken English for 2 years now but this is the first time I heard the ‘same amount of time’ expression. This was key for me. Thanks from Budapest

[@speakenglishwithrupert]

Thanks so much! I appreciate the comment! :)

[@NiviaLu]

Im brazilian, so portuguese is syllabic, and I see so many brazilians speak english as syllabic as well, but I d like to speak more similar britanic. Tks a lot I will practice like that you teach 😊

[@speakenglishwithrupert]

This video is for people like those you describe. Thanks for commenting!

[@JPbarbosa8]

That is interesting. I always thought britanic english pronunciation more proper to us, brazilians

[@bgaruva]

Portuguese is mainly a stress-timed language.

[@stealthis]

​@@bgaruvamaybe they mean Brazilian Portuguese?

[@handebarlas6248]

Excellent!!! I'm an English teacher and I find this technique extremely useful!! I'll get my students watch this video during a lesson. Thank you very much Sir.

[@speakenglishwithrupert]

Thanks so much for commenting! Let me know if this works for you in the classroom :)

[@gavrielgavriel]

Actually it is very nice! I speak fluent English and I intuitively caught this rule, but it is great that the speaker has pointed it out. Now I know how to switch. I have a mixture of other languages inside and often I didn't follow this rhythmic pattern. People caught me on the spot, saying: "where are you from?" At the same time, personally, I hate this type of stress timed rhythm and admire syllable timed like in other languages I speak. It sounds more beautiful and less showing off...and definitely less English. The English one is like an army officer speaking, as much as you make the voice softer the strong syllable pattern hits harshly. In other languages the school teachers use this stress timed rhythm only to convey a rebuke in school or to attract children's attention.

[@stealthis]

I think the stress timing is there to fill in other gaps the language has in its design. Like without agglutination, we would have to say more words to perhaps get across complex ideas because we wouldn't have extensive amounts of morphemes to modify existing words in a reasonable fashion (even typing this sentence & concept is exhausting, given how wordy it has to be). But with stress timing, we don't have to add any additional words to highlight what is important or the context in the larger sentence, the sound itself (stressed) is a marker.

[@speakenglishwithrupert]

That's a really interesting observation - thanks for sharing!

[@erraticToaster92]

This video makes so much sense, better than it was explained in college. I finally understood. And whats more this may be why I am told I sound foreign or have an accent (when I am not and I don't).

[@itsoneAM]

Thank you so much for making and sharing this video! This is such an excellent, almost hidden in plain sight resource for non native speakers. Very rarely so teachers online emphasize on sound; I’ve just shared with a friend who otherwise speaks the basics pretty well, yet always wonders why they don’t sound like a native speaker. Have just seen some other content on your channel and it is all quite unique in a pool of english learning channels. looking forward to future videos, and, Seasons greetings!

[@speakenglishwithrupert]

I'm so pleased you enjoyed this video, and I hope you will also enjoy my future videos! Lovely to hear from you 👍🙏😁

[@olgadushina]

Wow, this is an eye opening discovery of a decade for me at the very least! Been learning English since primary school, which is almost 30 years now, and nobody has told me this before! Been following this rhythm intuitively myself but now I know how to explain this to my kid and hubby too! Thanks so much ❤

[@speakenglishwithrupert]

I'm glad this was helpful. Thanks for commenting Olga!

[@VK-sp4gv]

When you clapped the last example, I wanted to sing "The hills are alive with the sound of music".

[@speakenglishwithrupert]

Brilliant! I can hear this in my head right now :)

[@m.reynolds9663]

😂

[@fantasip]

cannot be unheard now 😂

[@nargueshosseini6318]

Awesome! Why no one has said this before! I’ve been studying English as a foreign language for 6 years and didn’t know it. Thank you so much!

[@speakenglishwithrupert]

Thanks so much! I appreciate the comment! :)

[@lenaalpha456]

I've gained profound knowledge today. I noticed that despite the correct grammar and vast vocabulary my speech isn't 'English'. I thought the problem was my poor pronunciation. But it's not, or rather not only this)). Do we speak here about British English?

[@speakenglishwithrupert]

Hi! Yes, I speak British English. I also have a grammar channel English with Rupert 😁

[@HBD47]

Thank you for the video. I have noticed how important the rhythm of speech is after living in Canada for a few years. I even made up a word for this: speech "MEDIDICA."

[@Rjfgafzgfhnkl6266]

The claps 👏 made it so easy to understand. Thank you!

[@speakenglishwithrupert]

I'm glad that was helpful for you! It worked for me in the classroom, and I'm pleased that it's worked on KZbin too!

[@yvasquez2449]

Brilliant, never knew this…thanks. I would like to hear the rhythm in the other way to talk too, the syllable-timed way…just to understand better the difference and find out how I normally speak.

[@speakenglishwithrupert]

Spanish is a good example of a syllable-timed language

[@yvasquez2449]

@ I know but that was not my point. I wanted to hear the hands clapping 🙂

[@charlieruisseau2476]

As a certified monotonous syllable speaker (I'm French), I find that your "ran" was a tad long in the first example. ;) Amazing video, I wish school teachers had explained it to me this way!

[@speakenglishwithrupert]

Thanks so much! I appreciate the comment! :)

[@simonestreeter1518]

Thanks for the good chuckle. I routinely poke fun at my French teachers when I use anglicisms with their (your) accent and rhythm. Je comprenais que notre cadence était très différente, mais ce mec l'a expliqué clairement.

[@tikitaka8042]

This is one of the most clearest and easiest ways to improve my pronounciation! THANKS A LOT, SERIOUSELY! I SUBSCRIBED YOU. I WILL SHARE THIS TO MY FRIENDS.

[@speakenglishwithrupert]

Thanks so much for subscribing and sharing! Im so glad you liked the video 👍🙂🙏

[@briandriscoll1480]

I'd never considered this. Truly amazing.

[@speakenglishwithrupert]

Thanks Brian! I appreciate the comment 🙂

[@emiliosujar7197]

You have opened my mind, congratulations for such a splendid and useful teaching.

[@speakenglishwithrupert]

I'm so glad I managed to help you with this 👍🙂

[@elmadas]

Great video, I did not know the underlining rithm of the English language, as an Italian, this kind of stress is used in a different way, like scolding people or trying to inculcate ideas to them, lol.

[@speakenglishwithrupert]

That's interesting! It's amazing how such little things have different meanings depending upon where you live in the world 👍🙂

[@peterbernhard7415]

Would be interesting to know about the inverse: English person speaking in steady beat, staccato, what does it mean. Just an idea: that might amount to music, steady beat plus varying the pitch, as presumably Italieans do.

[@msfrehel8758]

This was mind-blowing to me! I didn’t know that and it is so helpful. You’ve really opened my eyes and explained it so clearly - thank you so much!

[@speakenglishwithrupert]

Thanks for the lovely comment 😁

[@leonieharry2941]

Very interesting and so well explained! Thank you! To my Austrian ears ;-) American English is less “rhythmically emphasized” than British English. Interestingly, American English is more similar to Austrian German, but I want to learn how to speak British English properly. Nice regards from Vienna :)

[@ffotograffydd]

Indeed. As a British person I’ve definitely noticed that with Americans. Plus they use a lot of antiquated words that Brits no longer use.

[@silviarosellini1]

After so many years studing English, I have been told about this by a musician as a curiosity when I was studing acting and the difference between italian poetry and english poetry and the difficulties in translation. Even if that musician demonstrates us that it is not always true that italian is a perfectly sillabical language as it is considered to be. Thank you for teaching so clearly and effectively 🙏🏻

[@speakenglishwithrupert]

Thanks so much! I appreciate the comment! :)

[@lorenzcassidy3960]

Ok, got it: from now on I'm gonna clap my hands in time while speaking English with a foreigner! 😅 Thanks mate! Greets from Italy👋😁

[@speakenglishwithrupert]

Brilliant! I hope that goes well 😁

[@ПОЧИНЮКУКУХУ]

As a Russian I can just clap. I will not get how many words and where I need to eat up.

[@m.reynolds9663]

😂

[@orlovae1]

Great and very important advice! I found it out by myself when I worked in the UK from the reaction of the institute secretary to my speech. She could not understand me at first, and by trial and error I learned that it is the proper rithm of stresses that helps. If I were speaking only to academics I would not learn this as they are more trained and understand variouse accents easily.

[@speakenglishwithrupert]

Thanks for sharing that interesting story!

[@eugenghi]

Stunning! I have never thought about this! Amazing! Thank you so much, Rupert!

[@speakenglishwithrupert]

I'm delighted to hear this was useful for you! Thanks for commenting 🙂

[@Triharyanto1968]

I was an English teacher in Java, Indonesia. I was unaware of this way of speaking. Thank you very much for this video.

[@speakenglishwithrupert]

Thanks so much! I appreciate the comment! :)

[@m.a.8335]

Danke für diese echt hilfreiche Lektion! Das hört man nirgendwo.

[@speakenglishwithrupert]

Thanks for the kind comment 🙂

[@ninaballerina2807]

The comments are as enlightening as your video. Kudos on garnering an intellectually interactive class.

[@speakenglishwithrupert]

Thanks so much! Yes, some of the comments are really good :)

[@ninaballerina2807]

@speakenglishwithrupert 😊 More success to you!

[@user-rc7lh4ov1s]

Outstanding from all other multiple English learning videos! Thanks a lot!

[@speakenglishwithrupert]

It's wonderful to hear you enjoyed the video 👍🙂

[@Pinnokiz]

I never came across this topic on this subject, well done professor this should be the basics for every non-native english beginner.

[@unknownstranger-ht3ou]

Literally superbbbb! And I'm amazed that this platform hasn't 2k members yet! Support him🎉

[@speakenglishwithrupert]

Thanks for the lovely comment! 🙂

[@silkeschmidt4526]

This lesson makes nearly everything better, speaking AND listening.

[@speakenglishwithrupert]

Thanks so much! I appreciate the comment! :)

[@yayatheobroma929]

This is why you count stresses inEnglish verse and syllables in French, Spanish or Italian verse.

[@speakenglishwithrupert]

Exactly - you've nailed it! Thanks for commenting :)

[@femalewarrior125]

Very interesting, my first language is Spanish, I also speak some Italian and English, but when I took my son to speech therapy long time ago… I remember asking the teacher if my son was going to pick up my accent… she asked me what accent? I said, I have an accent when I speak English; she said: you don’t, you have a different rhythm because your first language is Spanish! Now I understand what she meant!

[@rincon5d]

I’ve been doing it without knowing it. So this is a wonderful confirmation. Thank You Master.

[@speakenglishwithrupert]

That's great to hear! Thanks for the lovely comment! :)

[@Wargindo]

I think this is amazing..with this stress sound rhythm

[@speakenglishwithrupert]

Thanks so much! I appreciate the comment! :)

[@thankgod3406]

It makes sense. Intonation and rhythm are surely the keys of native-like English speaking. Thorough understanding of sentences have to come first I think. Thank you for your nutritious works.

[@speakenglishwithrupert]

Thanks for the kind comment! God bless Rupert 👍

[@brynawaldman5790]

The beauty of Shakespeare & iambic pentameter relies upon stress patterns.

[@taviaseymour1635]

I was thinking too, about how the effects in iambic pentameter comes from going against the da-Dum rhythm. I.e. a heavy stress where light would be expected

[@la.reaction]

Very helpful thanks ! A native French speaker, I moved to Liverpool when I was 18. Rythme was not my only problem to communicate 😅 But I still loved it. Great city. Cheers !

[@speakenglishwithrupert]

I really appreciate the comment and your story about Liverpool! Best wishes Rupert 👍🙂

[@Зоя-ю6м]

Я счастлива, что попала на ваш канал.Спасибо.❤

[@speakenglishwithrupert]

I don't know what this means but thank you for what I think is a kind comment!!

[@vidulakudekar3266]

Thank you, I am Indian, and my language has different rhythms , so this is helpful for me to know more about English

[@speakenglishwithrupert]

I'm so glad you liked the video! Thanks for commenting 🙂

[@c138599]

Thank you. I think this explains why I find it so difficult to understand, for example, an Indian person who speaks perfect English and yet can more easily follow a European person who can only speak in broken English. Without key-sound cadence it takes enormous concentration to extract meaning even from a clearly spoken statement.

[@speakenglishwithrupert]

I think there is something in that. Indian is the most syllable-timed version of English that I am aware of. I am not suggesting they are wrong, by the way, but it does present an extra challenge when British speakers try to understand Indians and the other way round.

[@AndyMangele]

Wow! Even though I'm fluent in English I never looked at it that way! Thanks a lot for this highly informative analysis!

[@speakenglishwithrupert]

Thanks for taking the time to comment - I appreciate it 😁

[@Ichthys73]

That's an incredibly valuable tip! As a "wannabe polyglot" I'm really excited about it. Thank you!❤

[@speakenglishwithrupert]

I'm so pleased this video was valuable for you!

[@mullaert]

Great rule. Thank you. I will though have difficulties to find that rhythm in fluid speech.

[@speakenglishwithrupert]

Thanks for the kind comment!!

[@นลินรัตน์วิชานนท์กุลศรี]

Learned great speaking. Thanks for teaching me. I enjoyed it very much.

[@speakenglishwithrupert]

That's so good to hear! Thanks for letting me know 😁

[@นลินรัตน์วิชานนท์กุลศรี]

I love it! It's Absolutely Brilliant, Thanks ❤️❤️❤️❤️🙏

[@paulmeisel339]

That's very, very good and I just realized, that nearly every language does it!

[@speakenglishwithrupert]

Thanks so much! I appreciate the comment! :)

[@RicardoMartinez-oh9sq]

My native Spanish, like Italian, is not only syllable-timed, but it also phonetically very simple: Learn how to prounce the vowels and diphtongues and you will pronounce nearly always each and every word well.

[@speakenglishwithrupert]

There's an extra challenge for people who are used to a syllable timed language! Well done for accepting the challenge 😀

[@guyl9456]

Excellent explanation. Now the stress that we are talkking about here must not be confused with the stress of a word which is something different. In the example presented the words "boy - girl - ran - school" are short words that have only one stress. English is very easy ...if you learned it as a child and is your first language.

[@speakenglishwithrupert]

Thanks for the kind words! I appreciate it!

[@MuhammadRamzan-iz1sl]

Fantastic and another more different than your last lesson, your nature is being awesome i reckon because your every new video is covered layer of English proficiency which draws my attention so thanks for your new lesson again ❤❤❤❤❤!

[@speakenglishwithrupert]

Thanks Muhammad!! Yes, that's my idea. It's best to learn all the features of English bit by bit, rather than all at once. I'm glad it's helping you :)

[@ernaherlina8014]

Thank you for this eye-opening explanation. I wish my English teachers back then in high school have explained it. My national language is Syllable-time type. But my ethnic language, although almost similar with my national language in vocabulary, is spoken in stress patterns. I am also learning Russian, which is also use the stress type.

[@speakenglishwithrupert]

That's a really interesting story - thanks for sharing it! I appreciate the comment :)

[@vishnupriya_sivadasan]

Oh my god...!!! Unbelievable. I became like a native speaker.! There was a time when i wished to be like this

[@speakenglishwithrupert]

That's great to hear 👍🙂

[@lilaalaoui5058]

From my experience, I noticed that natives stress words in different timing and that depends on the area. For example in north west, where I live, people do take their time when they say” that” “ girl “ and another thing they do repeat it’s just. So my hint is just to copy them 😊. Thank you for the video is spot on.

[@speakenglishwithrupert]

Thanks so much! I appreciate the comment! :)

[@Intermidiate2Advance]

"Keep making videos, sir. I'm truly sure that soon you'll cross 1 lakh subscribers. There's no one like you on the whole of KZbin 😊

[@speakenglishwithrupert]

You are very kind! I'd be delighted if I can help more people with their English 😁

[@plranisch9509]

The greatest lesson that emphasizes this major fact!

[@speakenglishwithrupert]

Thanks so much! I appreciate the comment! :)

[@m.mehrabi1865]

Beautifully elaborated. Well done.

[@speakenglishwithrupert]

Thanks so much!

[@tamaserdi5426]

This is incredible, thank you! It also means I will always give my non-native origin away as soon as I open my mouth :)

[@speakenglishwithrupert]

Very good! I like that!

[@daisyb1469]

It reminds me of Professor Higgins teaching Eliza: 'The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain.' The same rythm😂

[@speakenglishwithrupert]

LOL!!

[@shaman5433]

I always think about it as connecting the words, just flowing into the next one. In music it would be like adding a syncope.

[@boris7417]

Important thing I didn’t notice. Thank you

[@speakenglishwithrupert]

I'm glad this has helped 😁

[@EmmanuelJoseph-l5i]

God be with you

[@speakenglishwithrupert]

And you too! Thanks for commenting!