It’s never too late to improve the
way that you speak!
Our
accent reduction and American pronunciation courses will teach
you to create the sounds of Standard American English and give you
greater confidence in your communication skills with native speakers of
English.
A
strong foreign accent can prevent you from achieving your professional or
personal goals and reaching your full potential. People
shouldn’t have to ask you to repeat what you said. In today’s
competitive corporate environment, clear pronunciation and correct
grammar are a must.
If you are seriously interested in improving the sound and style
of your speech, our foreign accent reduction and American English
pronunciation classes can help you.
In
addition, we focus on the elimination of other types of language
problems such as grammatical and sentence structure errors which may
affect the way you sound.
Do I have to
change my accent?
There is nothing
wrong with having a foreign accent. In fact, many native speakers may
find your accent charming. In certain situations you can use that to
your advantage! Still, it’s never charming when someone has trouble
understanding you, and it’s no fun if an excessive accent is preventing
you from achieving a professional or personal goals.
You probably grew
up overseas and you may have learned English in school. Your teachers
may have been excellent, but if the teachers were not native speakers,
they probably unintentionally taught you to speak English with a foreign
accent. Pronunciation is the weak link in the teaching of English
around the world. Most English teachers in other countries are not
trained to teach the American English accent, even as more and more of
their students are interested in learning American speech.
English is the
primary language in the global workforce. Millions of people are
speaking English. Yet, many of them are hard to understand. Even CNN
often uses subtitles to clarify the English pronunciation of a person
who imagines that he or she is being understood.
To be an expert in
a language means more than just mastering grammar and vocabulary.
Mastery means speaking well, pronouncing words clearly, and not having a
distracting language melody. Above all, it means feeling confident that
when you speak with a native speaker, you will be understood.
