hey there michelle how's it going today how you feeling hey lindsay i'm good i'm good how are you
i am feeling amazing today michelle amazing well that makes me so happy that's good i'm
also feeling amazing it was going to be a great episode oh my god what are we doing
you know sometimes i like to extend my words super long right make them super long oh this is going
to be a fun one today michelle what are we getting into today okay guys if you couldn't guess uh we
are going today to be talking about how to draw at your words to show emphasis and personality
when you are having a conversation yeah and i think this is exactly what our listeners need
right now because we know you guys you know the basics you know the basics you're probably even
above intermediate level you're wanting to move to that advanced to native like level that 99 fluency
level right so this is why we're here this is what gets you to that point and actually makes
people want to listen to you because if your monotone what happens uh you sound boring it's
boring it's boring and it doesn't catch the ear people just don't listen right if you're monotone
do you know yeah sorry it's actually like even i think because um we're not expecting uh monotone
sound i think it almost becomes difficult to understand in a way not just being boring but like
because you have to like listen extra to kind of fill in the spaces yourself it's true do
you know anyone who speaks in a very monotone way in english like a native speaker anyone you
like on tv or someone you know remember that you know that comedian ben stein no i don't know him
unfortunately well he okay wait i think he's the one and i actually haven't seen this movie but
in ferris bueller's day off who like goes bueller bueller oh okay i love that movie that's a funny
okay so i'm pretty sure that's ben stein but he's known he's actually like famous for his not
his like monotone voice right and he's a comedian so it's part of his act is that what you're saying
yeah that's part of it's part of his act he's known for that so that's a little bit different
but yeah he's he's famous for that um so but yeah very important to be expressive in your
conversations with your words and yeah i i thought of this because i was watching a show and someone
used the word terrible in a sentence but they made it super long um like they were like it
was terrible and i thought you know what we do this a lot and it's something that i think we
want to take some time to pay attention to on the podcast because this is a good lesson for
our listeners to deal with timing stress um you know just showing emphasis personality like i said
exactly and then so let's go through the basics of how to really do this and then
we can take it to an even higher more advanced level because i know that sometimes people have
inside jokes with friends about extending certain words like saying goodbye on the phone
i've heard people around me with certain friends like very close friends they'll say something like
bye it's very it's so annoying and i would never say it but it's their personal joke
right and so that's a way to build connection too is by extending certain syllables just
because you did it once and you laughed about it together and now you keep doing it all the
time so that's also a way to build connection i mean yeah that's true that's true so guys we're
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know what we're talking about here okay so you could say what a terrible day or you could say
what a terrible day now what do you think what do you think about those two examples what a terrible
day right well you know the second one makes me want to say whoa what happened like why was
it so terrible it actually gets me a little more interested in you and what's going on in your life
right so starting a conversation yeah so i think that you know the first one what a terrible day
it can be just as emphatic if you do it in a little bit of a different way like what it's
you know like depending on how you play with it it can also be very uh interesting to listen to but
lengthening the word is one technique you can use it to really make it interesting like lindsay said
though then she wants to hear about it makes it expressive and strong what a terrible day um it's
definitely dramatic it's definitely dramatic but sometimes sometimes we need that i mean it doesn't
it doesn't always have to be that it's super dramatic to do this type of a thing but just
a little bit with a little bit of pizzazz yeah do you think it's possible to overdo it with this
with doing too much of this in your in your the normal way you speak just all the time some people
do it a lot this kind of thing i think that i think it is possible to overdo it um i think you
know we always want to be expressive but you don't need to you know guys i uh the last thing we want
you to leave here going with is to say okay let's go through my conversations and then now every
word i'm gonna do no no don't do that don't go that far on that in that direction right we just
add a little bit of this every once in a while and we get more connection maybe we should give
our listeners some examples here michelle okay so here we go so what do you think of my new haircut
oh lindsay it looks amazing good so i really needed you know you could have said oh it
looks amazing that's okay too but it's fun if you really want to say it truly is a
transformative change right maybe i just got a totally different cut you want to say amazing
right right right so again like the first example was oh that's a terrible day terrible day um it
doesn't always have to be for negative things like here we have a very positive thing oh you
look amazing right it's amazing stretching it out a little bit just makes it more intense you know
yeah one area that that this will happen a lot is when you're wearing a wedding dress
when you're getting your and sometimes it's hard to know whether other people whether
people really mean it or not right like if you have a dream if you're getting alterations
you know and there it is and you get a lot of that is it genuine right that's one thing that
i think people might struggle with is it really genuine or are you just supposed to emphasize
amazing when you see someone in a wedding dress oh i think we have to give people the benefit of the
i don't want to second-guess it but yeah yeah of course what all brides look amazing absolutely
well there you go all right michelle here's the next one did you have fun today yes the food was
incredible yeah and that's good you know you find a great restaurant you got to talk about it right
the food was incredible you know what's kind of funny though when you write this in a text message
it's very weird i know it's like even just guys if you can see my notes now i you know like how
do you even write so weird switching i just have a whole bunch of ease but it's not incredible right
incredible so it's funny i guess over text um you know maybe you would just like maybe do all caps
or you could yeah i don't know it's but it's kind of it's kind of different it doesn't work quite
the same i don't think but i think this is what people do over text i think they write it like
incredible five e's yeah or amazing with five a's in the middle i've seen it i've seen it for sure
so i don't think there honestly is a better way to deal with it okay okay okay okay i'm glad to know
um so lindsay do you draw out your words do you do you stretch them out to express yourself
i don't know you know i feel like we should both record ourselves in our daily life and then take
this material to our listeners for a podcast episode that would actually be really cool i
don't know if i do or not i mean maybe a little bit but i know some people that do it more that
are a bit more over the top that's not exactly my personality but i want to be very warm i am warm
i just don't necessarily do it in a very dramatic way you know right right right well i mean guys
luckily there is a lot of audio of us so you can go back and let us know yeah true they would know
better than we would michelle yeah you can let us know like do like do i draw my words more than
lindsay or does she do you know is this something that you've noticed so uh let us know yeah a few
years ago i think there was something where a listener wrote in and said lindsay or michelle
says this all the time right they called us out on one thing we say a lot we didn't even know it
right so you guys know better than we do what we actually say yeah sometimes it's like i'm
almost like scared that i said that you guys should do this because then i'm like oh gosh
like they're gonna find something we challenge our listeners yeah i love it exactly exactly
so all right let's do let's do another example okay oh no this is the venue yikes this is awful
so sometimes that happens you show up and it's been built up in your head people have talked
about something is going to be amazing and then it's terrible looks awful right so right so and
again the the different i didn't say this is awful like it doesn't always have to be stretched out
like that much but just a little something so like the difference would be yikes this is awful
or right so it can just be a little bit extra so you can kind of you can decide you may say
oh i don't want to be super dramatic but i want to add a little yeah michelle do you want to do
that difference again one more time the normal way and then the stretched out way for our listeners
okay i'm gonna do three ways actually so the first way is uh yikes this is awful right that's kind of
neutral right still expressing with your words and you know um or you could say yikes this is awful
right a little like a little stretch and then the third way would be yikes this is awful right
maybe a little bit louder a little longer whatever it is interesting i love it so there are you can
decide how extreme how kind of dramatic you want to be guys this is where we get to play around
with our language this is where it gets fun it is fun it is fun yeah what else michelle well
one of the things is like generally generally you usually would like drag out the vowel
right oh okay terrible right it's a little bit tough to drag out a consonant really although
i suppose like in a way sometimes you could be like it would like really like really you know
you could but i think in general we think about dragging out like a vowel sound right lindsay yeah
we just there's not really much of a way so what you're saying with the really is the r a little
bit maybe the r sound but yeah generally it's the consonant so a few more examples here guys
you know you're holding your belly you just you're stuffed that was a huge meal right maybe you say
that after thanksgiving dinner or something um yeah yeah yeah or you could say that was so
much fun yes or there is never enough time that's an interesting one yeah so what is that when would
i use that what scenario michelle uh if a visit with someone went by really fast and you're
saying goodbye and you're like yeah i mean that's how i feel like when i see my parents i'm like
i feel like i go and then like it just flies by even if it's a long time it's like oh there's
never enough time yeah that's that's an awful feeling when it's gone by and that's it yeah what
about a movie movies well you could say that was the funniest movie ever right ever ever right so
or you could say that was the funniest movie ever something like that but you know a lot of times we
drag out the adjectives not not always the adjectives but you might you know if you if
you're starting off with this you could try this um but is this unprofessional
well i think it just depends on how much you use it i think you guys need to find ways to
convey your emotion if you feel strongly about something you need to find a way to convey that
at work right um but if you're if you are putting this intense emotion the thing is it's
not that it's professional or not it's more like you're gonna weaken every single thing you say
if you do it for everything right it's like it's like anything else you overdo it then people
underestimate the importance of it because you're saying it all the time it can't be that important
right so right right right that's true so don't do it all the time like we were saying before
but i mean you could like if you were talking to a co-worker you could say like oh that meeting was
long or something like that but yeah you know yeah so you know it depends and i think if you
feel like you have an animated personality some of us have more animated personalities than others if
that's you in your native language you know we are here to show you how to be you in english that's
the whole point of all there's english so this is you then go to town right do it all the time
and it could be that in certain situations or with certain friends or you know that you feel more
comfortable doing something like this or at the workplace you keep it a little bit different so
it doesn't mean that you have to change this for every single um like thing in your life or every
single context it depends it depends we all kind of have you know differences depending on
you know who we're with and i mean you know we try to be sincere to who we are of course
but you know we have kind of personalities that arise in different situations yeah i completely
agree that's a good point you know i could imagine someone that goes to work every day
and doesn't necessarily use this too much maybe they use it like one percent of the time and then
on the weekends out with their friends they're using it all the time because it's who they are
socially versus professionally so you could definitely be someone different yeah absolutely
absolutely all right well this was fun i did a lot a lot of i'm tired now all that being dramatic
really absolutely absolutely stretching things out and doing things yeah doing our stretches
for the day or stretches right michelle i mean guys think you know the takeaway here in my mind
is think about how you speak record yourself right everyone has a recorder on their android or iphone
record your voice you know on a meeting or around your friends or something and then listen and ask
yourself are you being monotone if you are then think about playing around with this a little bit
right that's the key okay absolutely so a little assignment so that could help
you out with this but yeah lindsay this was a fun episode a really fun michelle
all right so guys thank you for listening and or watching and we will talk to you soon
all right talk to you soon michelle take care bye