In this video, violinist Rob Landes pretends to be a complete beginner during lessons with professional violin teachers. Using the name “Vince,” he tells a fictional backstory and claims he bought a ...

As noted last week, intonation is the rise and fall of pitch in the voice — when speaking. There is the need to master the concept and its manifestations to improve on our spoken English. Among other ...

We have intensively discussed speech sounds in this class. The aim has been to improve on how we pronounce words. Today, we are building on what I hope has been achieved by looking at the concept of ...

Tonya Howell clapped her hands and moved to the music Saturday afternoon as Silent Lace, an emo rock band from Dyett High School, closed out Intonation Music's final showcase at The Promontory. "They ...

You’ve heard of laid-off workers training their lower-paid replacements. Now imagine that the replacement worker is a robot. Something like that is going on in Watertown, at a company called Tutor ...

Communicative language teaching (CLT) has been attaching importance on teaching intonation in foreign (FL) or second language (L2) setting for intonation conveys sentence meaning and information and ...

Veronica Beagle is the managing editor for Education at Forbes Advisor. She completed her master’s in English at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. Before coming to Forbes Advisor she worked on ...

This is an updated version of a story first published on Dec. 8, 2024. The original video can be viewed here. We're about to show you a technological innovation that could, one day, change the way ...

Learning English can be a wonderful but frustrating process for the majority of new students. As with any process of learning a language, mistakes are inherent in the learning process. Understanding ...

In this video, we explore how deaccenting in English intonation signals 'given information.' Various examples illustrate the concept of deaccenting, including iconic phrases like "Bond, James Bond," ...

In 2014, I was an equities trader on Wall Street. Drained by the long hours, it eventually became clear that the job and the lifestyle just wasn't for me. Prior to finance, I worked as a tutor and a ...

The unique relationship between animals and people is a territory often mined for cinematic fodder; the twist in “The Penguin Lessons,” based on the 2015 memoir by Tom Michell, is in the exoticism of ...