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Hello, everyone!
Today we start answering Diego's question about how to improve his rhythm and intonation in the English language. Don't miss this important talk!
Hoje começamos a responder a pergunta do Diego sobre como melhorar seu ritmo e intonação na lingua inglêsa. Não perca esta conversa importante!
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Thank you!
Friday Talk April 16, 2010 - English Rhythm
Hey! It's Tim here again with our weekly Friday tips. And I've received a lot of e-mails from you asking questions and suggesting things for us to talk about; and there are a lot of good suggestions, good questions. Here's one of them that stood out. It's from one of our members called Diego and He says:
@>---- stand/stood out = se destacou, sobressaiu
Hey, Tim!
I really love watching your videos, and I thought I'd suggest something for you to talk about. You see, although my pronunciation is fairly good I hit a wall when it comes to english rhythm.
“Hit a wall” is an expression that means here… if you hit a wall, or if you hit a brick wall, is when are you trying to achieve something, you reach a situation where you cannot make any more progress, like “We just about hit the wall in terms of what we can do to balance the budget.”
He can't do anything else. They don’t know what else to do to balance the budget.
So, in this case, Diego “hit a wall” when it comes to English rhythm.
@>---- when it comes to = no que se refere a
So I thought maybe you could teach us which words you have to stress when you're speaking and how to truly sound like an American. I remember talking to this Californian girl and she said my pronunciation was overall good…
Overall means like "em geral" good.
@>---- stress = enfatizar
@>---- sound like = parecer (no som)
…but my speech was somewhat flat.
@>---- flat = "desafinado", "sem sabor"
So then he asks:
So, there you have it, that's my suggestion. I hope you'll make some video about english rhythm, that would help me out a lot
All the best,
Diego
@>---- There you have it = É isso aí
@>---- help me out = me ajudar
Well, Diego, it just so happens that my brother is… - who graduated here in brazil in Letras - he's taking a course now, a post-graduation course in the English language, and he is studying a lot about pronunciation and rhythm and stress; and I asked him if he’d make a video for us explaining about content words and what you said here about which words you need to - what did you say? – “which words you have to stress when speaking” - those are called content words.
@>---- it just so happens = por incrível que pareça
@>---- content words = palavras de conteúdo
So I asked David if he would talk with you all and explain a little bit about content words and how to stress words, and the rhythm of the English language. Well, David is real busy and he is gonna [going to] teach today until 12 o’clock. It's about 10 o'clock right now. So, what I did, I broke in on His class.
@>---- a little bit = um pouquinho
@>---- real busy = bem ocupado
If you brake in on something - in this case I broke in on his class - if you break in on someone or something or on what they are doing, you stop them from continuing by suddenly entering the room they are in.
"I don't want to break in on their meeting."
But I did, I broke in on David's class. Notice you say, "I broke in ON David's class". You have to use your phrasal verbs correctly with the right prepositions.
So I broke in on his class and asked him to give us a lesson on that; so he willingly did and he explains a little bit to us.
@>---- willingly = voluntariamente, de bom grado
Our white board in the class room he was using is not very good, so i'll have to put the sentences here on power-point or something for you to see. But I'm not gonna [going to] show you all today I’m just gonna [going to] show you the beginning of it; and then next weak, I'll show you the rest of his explanation, okay?
And I think it will help you with you rhythm, Diego, and every one else, with your sentence intonation and rhythm; okay? Let's go to his class right now. Let's go!
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