Accent Reduction Lessons in Cowpens. Amazing Teachers.

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Favorably and extensively reviewed and proven to be effective by students, the accent-reduction program developed from Burrkowsky's (1969) multi-media method. I have taught this subject for over five years for public and private causes, such as library, individuals, and language schools. My emphasis for pronunciation is an ecological practice of the various sounds, rhythms, inflections, and patterns the spoken language integrates.

The goal is to develop a comprehensive, systematic sound profile based on lesson/MP3 recordings using audio monitoring software. Also, a crash course option exists based more on broad familiarization than intensive practice-orientation. The course encompasses more than 135 pdf and word files, along with multimedia items.

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The key to reducing your accent is a sensitive, objective hearing. We hear what we project from our minds. Very often it is not the same as what comes out of our mouths. The listener is also a judge that effects our speaking and thinking as well as our emotional state. That as you may know, effects the way we speak and also the way we perceive what we hear. The accent actually changes every day.

There is your first lesson and its free! There is much more to learn and to explore in accent reduction. I speak multiple languages and I am a professional musician with an unusually refined hearing. I possess perfect pitch, being able to identify frequency to within a range of a tuning instrument. As a conductor, I am able to hear which section and which instrument in that section is sharp or flat on a given note in the middle of playing a symphonic work.

Why is this important? It is vital to being able to identify what and where is needed to be moved as you speak to reduce

I love to teach accent reduction! My students are amazed once they learn how Americans really speak and that they can learn to speak like that too. From the first few classes, you will find that your attention is immediately drawn to how you are pronouncing not only individual words but complete sentences, and how your ear will quickly become attuned to the reductions and links that Americans make. Our lessons will be based on the book American Accent Training, and the very first lesson will be a diagnostic test so that we can see what areas you need to focus on first. It's really fun and exciting to see how quickly your accent develops into one that people can understand better and that you feel more confident using. Let's do this!

This course is about how to learn to say difficult sounds in English quickly and to reduce your accent audibly. We will cover the most important phonics/sounds that my clients - from India, China, France, Russia, Brazil, Spain and so on - have the most problems with doing business in the US/Silicon Valley. You don't have to go through all the lectures, just pick the areas you feel you still have to work on and practice the words diligently. You will see the slides that go with the video and most of the time, I also uploaded additional practice materials. If you work on your English pronunciation consistently, you will see results really fast.

Who this course is for:
You need to know some spoken American English already to benefit from the course. But, since this is an American English speaking course with lots of examples, if you practice a lot, you will be successful and will master American English.

We will cover all the phonic sounds of the English language

I can help you with accent reduction. I have taught many ESL, ESOL, TOEFL, IELTS and TOEIC students to improve their speaking, listening, writing and reading comprehension. I will cover accent reduction, phonemes, graphemes, tongue position and common mistakes made by various nationalities. These are my specialty regions:
Japan
China, Taiwan
Ukraine, Soviet Union
Saudi Arabia, Syria, Iran
Brazil, Peru, Argentina
Nigeria, Morocco
Spain, France, Italy
Germany, Poland
India, Pakistan

We can also cover grammar, vocabulary, spelling, sentence structure, tenses, subject-verb agreement and punctuation.

Learning and teaching pronunciation is one of my passions and I strongly believe that anyone, at any age, learning any language can have a native or near-native accent. In fact, improving your pronunciation is one of the single best and useful things you can do to help your overall language ability.

I've spent a lot of time looking at American English pronunciation and have studied the techniques of various polyglots, which has helped me to significantly reduce and almost eliminate any accent I have in other languages. In fact, I've come up with some special tools and techniques that will help you, as a learner of American English pronunciation, specifically.

Pronunciation (and ear training) involves three major aspects: intonation and rhythm, basic sounds, and how sounds connect/link between words. We will explore all of these aspects in various ways and using various tools and techniques throughout our lessons.

Some specifics include: a specialized vowel chart that will ...