Listeners from quieter speech cultures often describe Indian English conversation with the same few words: animated, excitable, loud, emotional, "they all talk at once". Each of those words is a judgment about feeling, and each is usually wrong. What you will learn: • Pitch range: using more of the voice • Volume: where it comes from • Overlap as involvement • Regional melodies: A preview • Stopping the emotion judgment • How it affects work • Practice: decode the scene • 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.