[어학]미국식 말투 연습

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Do not speak word by word.
Connect words to form sound groups.
Three ways to Make Intonation
Staircase Intonation
Statement Intonation with Nouns
Statement Versus Question Intonation
Emotional or Rhetorical Question Intonation
Four Main Reasons for Intonation
Individual Practice
Individual Practice
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Do not speak word by word.
If you speak word by word, as many people who learned "printed" English do. you`ll end up sounding mechanical and foreign. You may have notice the same thing happens in your own language: When someone reads a speech, even a native speaker, it sounds stiff and stilted. quite different form a normal conversational tone

Connect words to form sound groups.
This where you`re going to start doing something completely different than what you have done in your previous English studies. This part is the most difficult for many people because it goes against everything they`ve been taught. Instead of thinking of each word as a unit, think of sound units. These sound units may or may not correspond to a word written on a page. Native speakers don`t say Bob is on the phone. but say. Sound units make a sentence flow smoothly, like peanut butter never really ending and never really starting, just flowing along. Even chunky peanut butter is acceptable. So long as you don`t try to put plain peanuts directly onto your bread, you`ll be OK.

Use staircase intonation
Let those sound groups floating on the wavy river in the figure flow downhill and you`ll get the staircase. Staircase intonation not only gives you that American sound, it also makes you sound much more confident. Not every American uses the downward stair on their way to a shopping mall: " Hi my name is Tiffany. I live in La Canada. I`m on the pep squad."

Waht Exactly Is staircase Intonation?
We`re here.In saying your words. imagine that they come out as if they were bounding lightly down a flight of stairs. Every so often. one jumps up to another level. and then starts down again. Americans tend to stretch out their sounds longer than you may think is natural. So to lengthen you vowel sounds. put them on two stairsteps instead of just one.
We`rehere.
noouno

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