Interesting video 😀 most ppl are heavily influenced by celebs who are often not too educated. They copy their dressing, manners and speaking style without second thoughts. This way so many pple end up making major mistakes while speaking.
Hi Liza I caught myself talking like this in my tongue the Frensh. I would not do that but I have been speaking like this as I have been through hardships lately and this can contribute highly to cheap away in someone's confidence. My confidence has way been dwindelling Your lesson is usefull. Thanks a million and we really miss your precious lessons . Thanks to you I am able to write, speak and read English. It was a challenge for me.
Highly important aspect of proper communication (not only in English) even for not advanced learners. By the by, the same phonetic + semantic phenomenon plays a key role in few languages I am familiar with. Most likely this is a universal combination. Merci beaucoup Madame.
Thanks Lisa; again. Since your previous excellent video a few years ago about the same subject, of which I referenced when participating in making a RU-vid clip named “Right Intonation;Wrong Intonation” in my first language, this “uptalk” has disseminated like a virus. Unfortunately it didn’t stay limited to doubtful personages, teen groups, political debates, celebrities, ESL speakers, but also more and more educated experts are talking that way. Imagine listening to a scientific topic or a reportage on national radio, and the speaker is doing such. It’s not always easy to move away from the conversation. Now in workplace meetings, when someone addresses me with that intonation, I have developed this behaviour to say: I’m not sure I’m following; was that a question or a statement?” And guess what; the speaker has no idea what am I intending, and the discussion cracks because it looks like I don’t understand the “English words” other members are using! I’ve done my share by explaining the example of “name the weekday” and then referring people to your first RU-vid video about this when possible, but cannot do so in the middle of all scenarios I get to be present at. Best Appreciation and Luck
It was a very useful class, thanks so much. I'm not a native english speaker, however, after watching your video I realized that I used to uptalk a lot and now I know it doesn't sound well and professional.
Thanks Lisa for your wonderful video. As ever, it was not just learning English language, but professional speaking skills as well. 👌 Please make a video about "connotation" too. Thank You! 🙏
Good morning Liz, i watch your uploaded vdos , to each comment ,i can only put a sign of a heart and thumbs up. Reason: i am neither a good talker nor writer. Thanks to your great effort to teach us online.❤ God bless you.
I study English Language and English Literature & Culture in Norway, and when our professor (Australian) talked about intonation, he said Norwegians have a very interesting intonation with a lot of uptalk which makes us mix it into our English accent. He also said we need to be careful with uptalk to people with an English mother-tongue because they might think we mock them or we just annoy them (and that we might get hit in the face lol). It really depends on the Norwegian dialects too because no one speaks exactly like the written languages here. With phonetics I've been focusing on the American accent, and I try my best to not sound like a Kardashian. If you talk to a foreigner who does a lot of uptalk, they might be Norwegian as I believe we struggle with it the most in the world
Thank you, Lisa. This is the exact topic I want to listen to these days. I checked the internet to find out about "uptalk." There used to be some criticism in the 1990s, but people have been using this speech pattern increasingly since 2000, and it's becoming the norm, especially among young people. Non-native speakers want to sound like natives and tend to imitate this hideous uptalk intonation. I hope more professional native speakers will not use uptalk. Once I lived in California in the 1980s, no one spoke in the "uprising" intonation then, except in questions.
When I hear some speak with “uptalk” intonation especially at workplace environment, it sounds as if they were talking with no confidence, indisposed and arrogant at the same time, unprofessional and has no commitment and responsibility related to the job. Nobody likes an "uptalker", comparing the normal intonation and the uptalk. it made so clear how a natural speaker sounds and how a person speaking with a forced and wrong intonation can be unprepared and totally misunderstood. I also used to speak like this, but I also watched a previous video about it, here and I try to avoid it, it's a nuance, a simple mistake, but makes all the difference.
I have noticed that some people actually get offended or weird if you speak with flat intonation, as if you aren’t friendly. This assumption of course drives me a bit crazy because it is not true. Thank you Lisa!
Thanks for the new video, Lisa! But I would like to go deeper in this topic :) I know there are a lot of pitches in the intonation…. Will you please consider creating a full course on American intonation?
Gosh! I thought it was the standard accent of Americans. No wonder whenever I heard some Americans talk without such uptalk accent sometimes, I would wonder why they sounded not so American-like. I noticed that uptalk was very common among the young people mostly. I thought that if I wanted to be more native speaking then I have to sound more like them. Now I know it's such a misleading thought. Thanks Lisa for clearing this up.
absolutely, and sometimes the intonation has different rules (or no fixed rules at all). In Norway there's a lot of falling and rising in the intonation, so when we speak English there's too much uptalk in our accent
A very serious mistake that we Latinos often make when we speak English. The intonation used when asking a question in Spanish is used unconsciously in English. Of course, it takes a lot of practice with native speakers to correct this habit.
Thanks, Uptalk really gives an impression to those speaking to me that he is less intelligent, more artificial and more insecure. It makes him or she a laughing stock. Typical the way of speaking of an Essex girl streotype they generally speak in the way of the upspeak Thanks, Lisa for learning many new things from you
I don’t agree with what people are saying about uptalk. Are we supposed to think that everyone that uses uptalk is dumb? Not smart? We don’t want to spread stereotypes.
