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"Change Your Accent: English Pronunciation For Success" - the comprehensive resource for Speech Pathologists and ESL teachers
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Read what our clients say about Change Your Accent's proven program and the benefits of successful accent reduction:
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Trivial Pursuits: Speaking of English
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We often take speaking English for granted, but the process is both complex and remarkable. It's no wonder we make mistakes and are sometimes left scratching our heads! Being slightly nerdy when it comes to accent reduction and English pronunciation, we at Change Your Accent would like to offer some communication trivia to put things in perspective. Intense coordination is required for speaking English. To produce a simple phrase, about 100 muscles of the chest, throat, jaw, tongue and lips must work together in a precisely timed way. While humans can say about 14 sounds per second, isolated parts of the...
Actors and Accents
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One of my clients recently asked me why he couldn’t do what Andrew Lincoln on Walking Dead does. And, no, he wasn’t asking me about killing zombies. My client wanted to know why he, a guy from China, couldn’t imitate American speech with no trace of an accent. Well, it’s a fair question. The answer is quite simple. Andrew Lincoln is amazing at imitating an accent. So are Renée Zellweger, Idris Elba, Rosamund Pike, and a handful of other talented actors. While Andrew has the occasional difficulty, the only consistent error I’ve noticed is when he says his on-screen son’s...
Our Top 5 Accent Reduction and English Pronunciation Tips
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