Wondering why American English speakers eat their words, saying so many things in a way that is hard to understand and fast? Or maybe you're wondering how to speak more naturally with richer emotion? Before you think about what to do with your face, your mouth, or tongue, or breath, think about the stress pattern. What words and parts of words are you giving space to? What parts are you weakening and saying faster?Welcome to For Word, the platform dedicated to guiding you towards better spoken performance. We're constantly looking at techniques to add more vocal variety to how we talk by incorporating more softness and firmness to our, furrowing eyebrows, smiling, raising and lowering pitches, adding pauses in order to convey frustration, sadness, joy and nervousness, and considering how to add more breath to everything we say. Let's see how these elements of contrast and body language can lead to richer expression.In this video, we're especially paying attention to the difference between stress timed and syllable timed rhythms in languages, and how stress timing creates a more natural sound n Amercan Englsh#performance #poetry #speaking

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