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Kristine H.

Kristine H.

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Licensed ACCENT REDUCTION professional teacher | Certified Job Interview Coach | Communication Coach Can you pronounce these words? GIRL, WORLD, RARELY I am from California and come from a long family line of professors, teachers and qualified educators. My BIO is highly specialized in pronunciation / speech therapy / advanced oral fluency. *I am a CEIP | Certified Employment Interview Professional™ *MASTERS of TEFL and TESOL, Honors | 20+ years experience *5-star presenter at International TESOL (Teach English to Speakers of Other Languages) conferences. *National Tutoring Association International Member | NTA *PARW/CC member | Professional Association of Resume Writers and Career Counselors. *I am trained to customize lessons based on NATIVE language, this is the KEY to success! Licensed Job Coach | Professional Communication Coach | Speech Therapist ESL --------------------------------------------------------- I will show you where to place your tongue and also the vocal chord strategies needed to create American English sounds. Do you know that most difficult sounds come from a vibration in the vocal chords? Native speakers change the pitch of all vocal sounds for a wide variety of reasons. If you said these words on Speaker Phone, would you be understood ? live, life reef, wreath man, men ladder, letter bump, lump their, where ranch, rich caller, color ___________________________________________ "Since studying with Kristine, I have had many compliments from branch office in New York...My colleagues in the US can finally understand me on speaker phone." -Yang, ESL student in China "I was worried about my presentation in Los Angeles, but Kristine helped prepare me and I was able to answer all audience questions with ease. I have had many English teachers in my lifetime, but none who have helped me so significantly as Kristine." -Sebastian, ESL student in Russia _____________________________________________ I have special training in Public Speaking with an emphasis on Non-Native speakers. CLIENTS INCLUDE: IT/software engineers CEOs, Small Business Owners Graduate Students at US universities Doctors, Scientists, Cancer Researchers Computer Programmers | Engineers Product Managers HR Managers Executives COMPANIES I HAVE WORKED WITH: Amazon Facebook Google Microsoft Pharmaceutical Companies Top Universities Apple TikTok Twitter Government Agency Professional Actors Life Coaches ----------------------------------------------- * BA, Honors, Math and French, Grinnell College, Top-Ranked US Liberal Arts *Stanford University Math scholar, Northwestern University, University of Chicago, Sorbonne in PARIS visiting French scholar *Teaching Assistant, University level, Math and French *Instructor, Writing, ESL and Math labs, University level *MASTERS of TESOL and TEFL, Honors | 20+ years experience
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