영어 의사소통에서 억양의 중요성

영어의 억양은 다양한 패턴으로 다양한 의미와 감정을 전달하는 강력한 의사소통 도구입니다.

### 영어 억양의 힘
* 💬  억양은 영어 문장의 의미를 완전히 바꾸어 다양한 해석과 감정을 불러일으킬 수 있습니다.
* 🎵  영어에는 7가지 억양 패턴이 있으며, 상승, 강세, 그리고 이 두 가지의 조합이 가장 중요한 억양 패턴입니다.
* 🔍  억양은 유연하며 상황에 따라 다른 의미를 가질 수 있으며, 새로운 정보나 오래된 정보를 표현할 수 있습니다.
* ❓  질문의 억양은 새로운 정보를 찾고 있는지 또는 화자가 이미 답을 알고 있는지를 나타낼 수 있습니다.
* 💭  영어로 된 질문은 억양에 따라 의견을 말하거나, 누군가를 비판하거나, 제안을 하는 등 다양한 아이디어를 전달할 수 있습니다.
* 😊  억양은 다양한 감정을 표현하는 데 사용할 수 있으며, 상승-하강 억양은 흥분, 짜증 또는 놀라움을 전달합니다.
* 🗣️  영어 억양과 질문에서 감정과 다양한 의미를 표현하는 데 사용되는 영어 억양.

Hi, I’m Kae. Welcome to Oxford Online English! In this lesson, you can learn about intonation
in English. How important is intonation? Let’s see. Look at a sentence: Do you need some help? It’s a simple question, but by changing
the intonation, you can change the meaning completely. For example, it can be a simple question,
where you’re really offering to help: Do you need some help? It can be a rhetorical question, where you
don’t really think the person needs help, but you want to be polite: Do you need some help? It can show that you’re annoyed with the
person you’re talking to: Do you need some help? It can be sarcastic: Do you need some help? It can show surprise that the other person
might need your help: Do you need some help? There are other possibilities, too! You can see that intonation is a very powerful
tool.

Controlling your intonation is important for communication in spoken English. So, let’s start at the very beginning: what actually is intonation? There are seven possible intonation patterns in English: rising, falling, rising-falling, falling-rising, flat, high, low. The most important are the first four: rising, falling, and combinations of rising and falling tones. Flat tones, including high and low tones, aren’t common and don’t have many uses, so we won’t talk about them today. However, rising and falling tones can each have many different meanings. Keep this in mind: one intonation pattern does not mean one thing. The same intonation can have different meanings in different situations. Also, intonation is flexible. There are rules, but the rules are not one hundred per cent fixed. Different people speak in different styles. Let’s practice! Here’s a word: Let’s try saying the word with different intonation patterns.

Repeat after me. Rising: where? Falling: where? Rising-falling: where? Falling-rising: where? Let’s try one more time, with two words: How many? Rising: how many. Falling: how many? Rising-falling: how many? Falling-rising: how many? If you can pronounce these four intonation patterns, you can already do most of what you need in English. So, how do you use these intonation patterns? The most basic rule is that you use a falling tone to show the end of a sentence. For example: I live in Madrid. She’s a lawyer. We might be a bit late. You can use a rising tone to show that your sentence isn’t finished yet. For example: I live in Madrid, but I was born in Canada. She’s a lawyer, although she isn’t working at the moment. We might be a bit late, because I don’t finish work until seven.

That’s the most basic rule, and it’s important. If you don’t use rising or falling tones
in the right places, people won’t understand whether you’ve finished speaking or not. However, there are many other ways to use
these intonation patterns. Let’s look at another. Did you get some bread? I thought you were going to get the bread! How are we going to make sandwiches if we
don’t have any bread? We can go to the bakery and buy some sandwiches
there. But, I think the bakery is closed on Saturdays. It’s not Saturday today; it’s Sunday! Oh… Can you work out what was going on in that
dialogue? After the first question: did you get some
bread, you heard five sentences. Listen again if you need to; can you hear
the intonation? Before, you heard that you use falling intonation
at the end of your sentence, but here, the pattern is often the opposite:

I thought you were going to get the bread! Do you know why this is? This is our second rule about intonation: you use a falling tone to show that information is new, and you use a rising tone for old information. In this sentence, the bread has already been mentioned, so it’s ‘old’ information, and you pronounce it with a rising tone. However, the word you gets a falling tone, because this is the new idea in the sentence. Let’s look at the next example: How are we going to make sandwiches if we don’t have any bread? Here, the idea is the same. The bread is ‘old’ information, so you pronounce it with a rising tone. The sandwiches are new information; this is the first time anyone has talked about sandwiches. New information gets a falling tone. In the next sentence, which word is ‘old’ information, and which word is ‘new’ information? Sandwiches are ‘old’ information, because we already mentioned them.

So, pronounce sandwiches with a rising tone. The bakery is ‘new’ information, because
this is the first time anyone has mentioned it. So, bakery has a falling tone. In the last two sentences, the pattern is
reversed, but the idea is the same. But, I think the bakery is closed on Saturdays. It’s not Saturday today; it’s Sunday! In the first sentence, the bakery is now ‘old’
information, so it gets a rising tone. The ‘new’ information, with a falling
tone, comes at the end of the sentence. You can see the same pattern in the second
sentence: the ‘old’ information—Saturday—comes first, and the ‘new’ information—Sunday—is
at the end of the sentence. If you want more practice with this, go back
to the dialogue. Pause after each sentence, and repeat, trying
to copy the intonation. Pay attention to the way intonation changes
on the same word as it changes from new to

old information. Now let’s look at a very important use
of intonation: questions. Where did you go for your vacation? I went to Dubrovnik. Is that in Croatia? Yes, on the coast. Have you ever been? No, never. Did you have a good time? Very nice, though it’s quite touristy. You got back yesterday, right? Yeah, late in the evening. Are you feeling tired? No, not too bad, actually! In the dialogue, you heard six questions. Three of them had rising tones, and three
had falling tones. Do you know why the intonation is different
in different questions? Sometimes, when you’re asking a question,
you have no idea of the answer. You’re asking a question to find out new
information. In this case, the question has a falling tone: Where did you go for your vacation?
Have you ever been? Did you have a good time? Sometimes, when you ask a question, you already
have some idea of the answer.

You’re asking a question to check something,
or to confirm that your idea is right. In this case, the question has a rising tone: Is that in Croatia? --> I think Dubrovnik
is in Croatia, but I’m asking to make sure. You got back yesterday, right? --> I had
an idea that you got back yesterday, and I’m confirming this with you. Are you feeling tired? --> You told me you
got back late in the evening, so I guess you’re tired. This means that the intonation of a question
can change depending on the situation. If you use a falling tone, this becomes a question
to find new information. This means you really have no idea whether
Dubrovnik is in Croatia or not, and you want to know. You can ask: Where did you go for your vacation? If you ask this with a rising tone, it could
suggest that you knew the answer before, and you just want a reminder.

You’re checking something you already knew; you’re not asking for completely new information. Using this intonation will help you to sound more natural, but it doesn’t change the meaning of the question. However, there are many other intonation patterns in questions which do have different meanings. Let’s look! What a fantastic film! Wasn’t it great? Are you insane? It was the worst movie I’ve seen all year. Why would you say that? It was amazing! Forget it. It’s two hours of my life I’m never getting back. Why don’t we get something to eat? Your pick. How about we just go home? I’m pretty tired. Again, you heard many questions in the dialogue. Can you see what was different this time? Before we tell you, think about a question. What does a question do? Most likely, you thought: “a question asks for information.” That’s sometimes true, but actually you can use questions to communicate many other

ideas. In these cases, a question might not need
an answer. For example, you can use questions to make
a comment about something: Wasn’t it great? You can use questions to criticise someone
or disagree with them: Are you insane? You can use questions to make suggestions:
Why don’t we get something to eat? Can you remember the intonation in these questions? To make a comment about something, use a falling
tone: Why would you say that?
Doesn’t he look smart? Isn’t it delicious? To criticise someone, use a rising tone: Have you lost your mind?
Why would you do that? Are you really that stupid? To make a suggestion, use a falling tone: How about we just go home?
Why don’t you call and ask what’s happening? Remember that intonation is flexible, and
that’s especially true here. You can also make a suggestion with a rising
tone: How about we just go home?

Can you hear the difference? How do you think it changes the meaning? The suggestion with a rising tone sounds more like a real question, because it sounds more indirect and hesitant. The suggestion with a falling tone doesn’t sound so much like a question; it sounds more confident and direct. This brings us to our last point: you can use intonation to express many different emotions. There’s one intonation pattern we haven’t talked about yet: rising-falling intonation. You can use this to express different feelings: positive or negative. Look at one word: You can use a rising-falling tone to sound excited: really? You can use it—slightly differently—to sound annoyed: really? You can use it to sound surprised: really? Can you hear the difference between these three? Listen once more: Really? Really? Really? You use a rising-falling tone each time, but in a slightly different way. To sound excited or surprised, you start and finish higher, but to sound annoyed, the tones

are lower. Really? Really? To sound surprised, you often make the rising
tone longer. Really? You can also use other tones to express some
emotions. For example, you can use a rising tone to
express doubt. Really? You can use a falling tone to sound sarcastic.
Really? Let’s practice! You’ll hear the same question with five
different kinds of intonation. Which emotion am I expressing? Did you? Did you? Did you? Did you? Did you? Okay, we hope you learned something useful
about English intonation. We have a question for you: is intonation
in your language similar to English, or not? Let us know in the comments, because we’re
curious! Remember that you can find more free English
lessons on our website: Oxford Online English dot com. Thanks for watching! See you next time!

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영어 말하기에서 억양의 중요성

영어의 억양은 문장의 의미를 완전히 바꿀 수 있는 강력한 도구입니다.

영어에는 7가지 억양 패턴이 있지만 상승, 하강 및 이 둘의 조합이 가장 중요합니다.

이러한 패턴은 상황에 따라 다른 의미를 가질 수 있으며 억양에 대한 규칙은 화자와 스타일에 따라 유연하게 적용될 수 있습니다.

말하기에서 억양 패턴 마스터하기

명확한 의사소통을 위해서는 올바른 억양 패턴을 사용하는 것이 중요합니다.

한 문장에서 새로운 정보에는 하강 어조를, 오래된 정보에는 상승 어조를 사용합니다.

오래된 정보는 상승하는 어조로, 새로운 정보는 하강하는 어조로 발음하는 일관된 패턴을 사용하면 의도한 메시지를 효과적으로 전달할 수 있습니다.

질문의 억양은 화자가 정보를 확인하거나 무언가를 확인할 때 상승하는 어조를 가질 수 있습니다.

반면에 떨어지는 어조의 질문은 화자가 새로운 정보를 찾고 있을 때 사용합니다.

질문의 억양은 화자가 자신의 생각을 확인하기 위해 묻는 것인지, 아니면 진정으로 문의하기 위해 묻는 것인지에 따라 결정됩니다.

질문은 정보를 찾는 것 이외의 목적으로도 사용할 수 있습니다.

댓글을 달거나, 비판하거나, 제안을 하는 데 사용할 수 있습니다.

질문의 억양은 해당 질문이 사용되는 기능을 나타낼 수 있으며, 댓글 및 제안의 경우 어조가 낮아지고 비판의 경우 어조가 높아집니다.

억양의 상승과 하강은 문장을 의문문으로 바꾸고 다양한 감정을 표현할 수 있습니다.

상승-하강 억양은 톤의 높낮이와 길이에 따라 흥분, 짜증 또는 놀라움을 전달할 수 있습니다.

의심을 나타내는 상승 억양과 풍자를 나타내는 하강 억양과 같은 억양 패턴은 영어로 다양한 감정을 표현하는 데 중요합니다.