I didn't know "register" could be associated with pitch and intonation. I thought it had to do only with choice of vocabulary, level of formality etc. More with pitch than with intonation. The four basic registers are soprano,

At a conference where participants are not native speakers, one would want to speak actually in a lower register (on the vocal scale), avoiding harsh, vibrant, exuberant, high-pitched tones. Hi Philip, Thanks for this info. I didn't know

Hello to all, I believe that to learn English depends of the interest of individual and depending of the English knowledge you wanted to learn. like for instance, if you want to speak English all you have to do is to listen very carefully to

Hi Anon, what Jim said makes a lot of sense, and we discussed it a little in another thread, I think. The point was that teaching completely descriptively is impossible. The teacher would have to say: Mr X says this, Mr Y says that, and Mr Z says

Hi, I'm not a native speaker, but if you want my opinion... I would never trust a TTS engine. I heard there are some excellent ones, if you look at them from a technical point of view. If you look at them from an ESL learner's point of view, then

Milky wrote: <It would exclude any speaker whose ability to comprehend your English was not a problem.> Thanks for the clarification. So your sentence should have read something like this, right? "In informal situations (e.g. where

Marvin A. wrote: Sorry, that went right over my head. Could you rephrase without all of those X's? If e.g. a native Italian deliberately speaks Italian with an English accent, and with English intonations, phrasings, etc., it is likely to

MrPedantic wrote: MrPedantic wrote: Alienvoord wrote: I've been to India 3 times, and knowing Hindi does help, at least in central India. But I find that while I'm there I do sometimes imitate the pronunciation and phrasing of Indian

MrPedantic wrote: Alienvoord wrote: I've been to India 3 times, and knowing Hindi does help, at least in central India. But I find that while I'm there I do sometimes imitate the pronunciation and phrasing of Indian English . Maybe this is

MrPedantic wrote: Alienvoord wrote: I've been to India 3 times, and knowing Hindi does help, at least in central India. But I find that while I'm there I do sometimes imitate the pronunciation and phrasing of Indian English . Maybe this is