Improve Your English Speaking Skills with Emphasis and Vocal Variety

Take your speaking to the next level. Improve your English speaking skills with emphasis and vocal variety.

When you use emphasis and vocal variety in your communication
- Your message has improved clarity
- Your audience is more engaged
- Your words are more memorable

Vocal variety in English is the way you use tone, volume, emphasis, and more to add emotion, power, and depth to your speech.

Emphasis in English is the way you use your voice to stress a word(s) words to indicate special meaning or importance. It can help you demonstrate emotion in English. Or highlight a feeling of urgency.

Emphasis and vocal variety are techniques used for skilled public speaking in English. And the good news is you, can learn and practice these techniques.

In this Confident English lesson, you'll learn 3 distinct ways to add emphasis to your speech in English for improved vocal variety including

- Choosing words to stress vs. sentence stress in English - We'll talk about how these are different and why it's important

- How to use volume for emphasis and vocal variety

- The power of the pause when speaking in English

To improve your English speaking skills, be sure to practice along with me.

Additional resources/lessons mentioned:

00:00 Introduction
01:11 Why emphasis and vocal variety are important
02:32 What is emphasis?
03:57 Using stressed words for emphasis
04:11 Sentence Stress review
07:27 Choosing words for stress or emphasis
10:34 Using volume for emphasis
14:18 Using pauses for emphasis
18:40 How to practice using emphasis for vocal variety

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Hi, I’m Annemarie — an English teacher whose expertise is in spoken communication, confidence-building, and fluency. Everything I do at Speak Confident English is designed to help you get the confidence you want for your life and work in English. On my YouTube channel, I share weekly lessons with strategies, skills, and resources to help you:

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All these emphases and vocal varieties called "Intonations".