Chinese Pronuciation Problem

waft1

In English, Chinese speakers have a tendency to increase the volume on stressed words, but otherwise give equal value to each word. This atonal volume-increase will sound aggressive, angry, or abrupt to a native speaker. When this is added to the tendency to lop off the end of each word, and almost no word connections at all, the result ranges from choppy to unintelligible.
                                                              
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celina

I do not understand it.

KochFord

原帖由 waft1 于 2009-1-10 03:34 发表
In English, Chinese speakers have a tendency to increase the volume on stressed words, but otherwise give equal value to each word. This atonal volume-increase will sound aggressive, angry, or abrupt  ...

agree

cherryblossom

哈哈。。。深有感触。刚来的时候住homestay，他们家有个6，7岁的小姑娘，说话抑扬顿挫，不知不觉中我也学会了。结果英文课上老师说，亲爱的，你说话像唱歌一样。刚开始我还以为这是夸我呢。接着老师又说，英语一般都是平声的。后来，很痛苦的改型过程， 终于改了。