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The research shows that we prefer voices which are rich, smooth, warm, like hot chocolate. Well if that's not you, that's not the end of the world, because you can train. Go and get a voice coach.
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There are amazing things you can do with breathing, with posture, and with exercises to improve the timbre of your voice.
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People who speak all on one note are really quite hard to listen to if they don't have any prosody at all. That's where the word monotonic comes from, or monotonous, monotone.
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Repetitive prosody, where every sentence ends as if it were a question when it's actually not a question, it's a statement?
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We speak not very well to people who simply aren't listening in an environment that's all about noise and bad acoustics.
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The language I'm speaking right now is on its way to becoming the world's universal language, for better or for worse.
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It's the language of the internet, it's the language of finance, it's the language of air traffic control, of popular music, diplomacy. English is everywhere.
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Mandarin Chinese is spoken by more people, but more Chinese people are learning English than English speakers are learning Chinese. English is taking over.
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It's been predicted that at the end of the century almost all of the languages that exist now, there are about six thousand, will no longer be spoken. There will only be some hundreds left.
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It's at the point where instant translation of live speech is not only possible, but it gets better every year.
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