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hey everybody
so the greatest question that my
students ask me is michelle
how can my english sound more cool more
interesting more catchy
um i wonder if i sound actually very
boring in my conversations
so here i am to answer that question so
to sound interesting and cool in english
there are seven things that you can do
today
and this is the day when i'm going to
tell you seven strategies to have the
most interesting conversations ever
well for that you need to watch this
complete lesson with me michelle on
let's talk the place where you develop
your english language skills so what are
we waiting for let's jump right into it
so the first thing that you can do to
leave an impact in your very first
conversation itself is to use intonation
well um when i say intonation it means
the rise and fall of your voice when
you're speaking
so actually when a person is speaking
especially when they're speaking a
second language they tend to speak in a
sort of flat tone because they tend to
think and speak
so this comes across as a monotone which
makes your speech sound kind of
memorized when i say monotone i mean a
flat tone
so basically intonation is crucial in
catching the listeners attention and
keeping it
so the best way to add intonation to
your conversations would be um to
practice yeah and especially with native
speakers because they help you learn
what natural intonation sounds like
so here i have an excellent tip for you
you can use this app which i love using
this is the camli app which is really
efficient to help you learn natural
intonation while conversing with native
speakers
so what you get here is real life native
speaker partners who can talk to you and
help you with your questions
so when you talk to native speakers they
don't they not only tell you what
intonation is but also how to add
natural intonation to your speaking and
how to sound more fluent and natural
when you're speaking
so camly is the place to go it is an
english language learning app where they
have trainers from various
english-speaking countries who answer
any of your questions related to english
for me the high point of this app is
that it acquaints you to different
english accents like british american
canadian irish kiwi south african and
some more
well you don't believe me right so let
me do a demo for you now let's jump
right onto campley app so here we are at
my phone's home page now let's jump to
camly
so guys as you can see i have 57 minutes
remaining and i'm gonna go to the tutors
now
well as you can see we have all these
amazing tutors from different countries
in green
well the green sign means that they're
all online they're all available to talk
with you and to share
their ideas and to help you with your
doubts so let's jump on to one of them
all right so let's see who we could talk
to now so there are some teachers who
are busy but i can see graham price and
he holds a teaching certificate
okay this is his profile so he speaks
irish accent and he is an english
teacher so let's just call him
hi graham
hi
how are you
i'm doing i'm fine
all right sir
yeah so
i had a question um about intonation
so sometimes i feel when i'm talking um
my speech is not as engaging and i feel
that i can improve on my intonation so i
have this question on my mind which is
when will i see you next
how do you think the intonation should
be for this question
so
so when will i see you next
okay that's a slight kind of
so sort of
raising up
generally questions tend to have a
slightly higher pitch
and tend to go up toward the end
in fact a habit that english speakers
have taken from other european language
speakers is sometimes in spoken english
you can make a statement
but ask it as a question which is very
common in latin-based languages so for
example
i can say you are okay statement
you know you are okay
that's a question
exactly and that's how people in
say for example france spain italy
they'd often ask questions in that way
in their own language so in english
we've taken that habit as well
but uh
so you can do it in informal speech
right so i could say that i have a
rising intonation for this question yes
you want to go sort of generally
statements tend to go down but questions
tend to go up
wow lovely that was amazing thank you so
much
no problem quite on point
thanks okay thank you're very welcome
yeah okay take care
you too
so did you just see how amazingly this
english teacher answered my questions
about intonation he told me exactly what
intonation is and how it should be for
different questions and sentences
so i asked him when will i see you next
and he told me it should be a rising
intonation slightly rising and even when
we say looking forward to meet you it
could be a falling intonation because
that's a sentence
so here you are your query resolved so
isn't ambi camly just the perfect place
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serious about learning english and
improving your english while talking to
native speakers now let's see what else
can you do to have an interesting
conversation so everyone loves to talk
about themselves their ideas and what
they love
you love to talk about yourself as well
right
but all you need to do is find out what
someone is into and let them talk about
it
even if it is not something you are a
fan of
giving them a chance to talk about their
passion will make them feel good and
then you'll feel good too
so here are three good questions to ask
what do you wish you had more time for
this is almost same as saying what are
your hobbies
another question would be if you could
be doing anything right now
what would it be
this is almost like asking
what do you do in your free time
and i have one more question
what makes you jump out of bed in the
morning
so here you're asking the person about
their passion
so this is the way to get someone
talking when you let them talk about
their own interests their ideas and
their passions
now
finding out what you both enjoy is even
better
when two people are talking about
something they both love it makes the
recipe for a great conversation and may
even lead to a lifetime friendship
well you may not figure it out right
away it might take a few tries so be
patient and keep searching by asking
questions that lead to that common
interest
for example what do you usually do for
fun
you could also ask are you into movies
cooking gardening cycling yoga or
whatever you can start by talking about
your own interests you could say that
lately i've been spending a lot of time
hiking in the mountains and then you
could ask them have you ever gone hiking
yes so this is a way you can get someone
talking by talking about your common
interests things that you both love so
showing someone you are interested in
what they have to say means asking
really great questions
and do you know asking a great question
takes careful skill
for example if you ask do you like
then the answer may simply be no
and sadly your conversation ends
and you certainly were not very
interesting so instead of asking
questions
like this where a person answers as yes
or no you need to have sort of
open-ended questions
so some great ways to start an
open-ended question would be for example
to start with what for example what do
you like about traveling i'm sure they
will have a long answer for that and
that will keep your conversation going
you could also ask
how would you love to spend a free
afternoon
you could start the question with why
why do you love yoga for example
or else you could start with if this is
like giving them a situation if you
could only choose one fun activity to do
for the year
what would it be
so this is the way to ask open-ended
questions to keep your conversations
going now in addition to asking great
questions being ready to give great
answers really makes you much more
interesting to talk to
so we have all been in those
conversations where we try to ask
questions but get nowhere as the person
answers no to everything for example
recently when i asked someone um what
have you been doing lately and this
morning someone told me nothing much and
the conversation just died and none of
us were interesting
so here are two tips for giving great
answers in a conversation so you should
be prepared to answer
and what about you
so in other words you need to be
prepared to answer questions that you
have asked because naturally a person
might ask you in return how about you
and here you have to answer your own
question
um you could also use question words
like i said earlier who what when where
why how
to think about what to say in your
answer and also to use more vocabulary
so this is how you can make your answers
more interesting and prevent your
conversation from dying so i'm of the
opinion that to be interesting in
english conversation means going with an
open mind
being ready to hear about different
ideas and to accept different
perspectives so if you want someone to
leave the conversation thinking that we
were interesting
that means sometimes holding back on
your own opinion and opening up to hear
their views
so you can always agree to disagree
right
i mean you can always let people feel
comfortable in their views without
agreeing and how do you do that well i'm
going to tell you that here are some
ways to agree
while disagreeing you could say that
i hadn't thought of it like that
that's an interesting point of view
you could also say i can see you are
really passionate about that however i
think so here what you're doing is that
you're agreeing to disagree with that
person but in a very polite manner and
my final tip would be keep it short and
sweet which is what i'm doing with this
lesson keeping it short and sweet this
is a winner especially when it comes to
being interesting and cool talking on
and on about you when it's your turn to
speak is really boring
so keep it short and don't worry about
tiny details so what you need to do is
you need to stick to the main points and
share the conversation so that both of
you speak enough and you will definitely
end up being much more interesting
because you didn't just go on about the
things that you love so here we are at
the end of the lesson
and now i want you to tell me in the
comments have you ever struggled with
keeping someone interested in your
conversations
if yes did you follow any of these tips
that i shared or did you follow any of
your own interesting tips which can help
our other viewers
so let me know in the comments how you
like this lesson and which of these tips
would you like to use in the future
also leave me a comment about your camli
experience so thank you so much for
staying tuned see you very soon in
another lesson till then keep learning
keep speaking english and keep having
amazing conversations see you soon bye