Episode 73 dealt with the fall your ear reads as curt. This episode deals with the mirror image: the rise your ear reads as doubt. In your variety, a statement that ends high signals uncertainty, a request for reassurance, or the speech habit sometimes called "uptalk", which many listeners judge as lacking confidence. What you will learn: • The informational rise • Friendly rises on the phone • The rise in announcements, instructions and service • Certainty lives in the words • When to confirm, and how • The cost of misreading the rise • Scenes • Practice: decode the sentence • Listening strategies • Self-check questions to test your ear Level: B1–B2. Self-study: listen, then take the quizzes. Audio voiced with AI from an original script by Dr. Rashmi R Nair.