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The Unspoken Melody: How Intonation Carries More Meaning Than Words

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Beyond vocabulary lies prosody—the music of speech. From the rising inflection that turns a statement into a question to the sarcastic tone that flips meaning on its head, the unspoken melodies of our language often carry more weight than the words themselves. Mastering this musicality is one of the final, most difficult hurdles for language learners on the path to fluency.