Your voice not only communicates your message – It can talk a great deal about your image. You may like it or not, people prejudge you based on how you communicate; in short, your success professionally will depend on your speaking skills and accent. Our Voice and Accent training programme would focus specifically towards reducing your regional accent and help you speak as close to the native British accent.
Even though you know the vocabulary and the endless grammar rules, you still find it difficult to pronounce English words correctly. This struggle with the English language can make communicating with native English speakers a frustrating experience for both, you and them.
You Supposedly have a regional accent, an accent that is normally expected of most non-native English speakers. You may have a good knowledge of the English language but that does not guarantee a good accent. So, what does a good accent mean? It means, an accent that is easy on all ears across the globe, an accent that is understood by all in the international community, no matter who the listener is an American, British, Australian or a Canadian or people from any other country. This Accent is called the neutral accent.
With our voice and accent training program, improving your English Accent is easy and enjoyable. Our training program helps to learn and master the most challenging characteristics, such as troublesome vowel sounds, difference in stressed and unstressed syllables and words, which make you sound like a native speaker. This training module develops you to shave off the excess regional accent from your current accent, and develop neutral accent naturally. This accent training module gives you the understanding of the American/British way of speaking, culture and diversity.
Let’s Talk Accent Training program is a highly specialised course offered to you by professional voice coaches. Our course offers accent reduction, practice in American/British phrases and conversation, and learning the rhythm of standard American/British spoken English. This course goes beyond merely teaching grammatical structures of the English language, our focus is on how you sound when you speak and how effectively you communicate with others around the world. We agree that there is nothing wrong with speaking with an accent; however, we are aware that many people would like to improve their English speaking skills by reducing their accent. Our goal is to help you gain more confidence and effectiveness in your English speaking skills by reducing the influence of your mother tongue or regional accent.
Main Vowel sounds in English
Mouth and Jaw Exercises
Production of vowel sounds
/ɑ/ as in father
/ɘ/ as in fun
/ɔ/as in saw
/oƱ/ as in boat
/Ʊ/ as in good
/u/ as in too
/ɘr/ as in bird
/aI/ as in time
/aƱ/as in house
/ɔI/ as in boy
/i/ as in meet
/I/ as in sit
/eɪ/ as in take
/ɛ/ as in get
/ae/ as in fat
Review of /I/ and /i/ Sounds
Review of /ɛ/ and /æ/ Sounds
Review of /ɘ/, /ɑ/, /ɔ/, and /ou/ Sounds
The Problematic o
The British /ɔ/
Review of /ɛ/, /æ/, /ɑ/, /ɔ/, /ɘ/, and /oʊ/
Review of /ʊ/ and /u/ Sounds
Comparing /u/ and /yu/
Review of the /ɘr/ Sound
Vowels Followed by the /r/ Sound
Forming Consonants
Voiceless and Voiced Consonants
Vowel Length and Voiced and Voiceless
Consonants
Stops and Continuants
Stressed and Reduced Vowels
Dangers of Stressing the Wrong Syllable
General Rules for Stress Placement
Two-Syllable Words
Noun and Verb Pairs
Words Ending in -tion and -ate
-ate Endings of Verbs and Nouns
More Stressed Suffixes
Rules for Prefixes
Syllable Stress Changes
Reduced Vowels for Review
The Various t Sounds of American English
The “Fast d” Sound
The /tʃr/ Sound: tr
The /dʒr/ Sound: dr
The /dʒ/ Sound: du and d + y
The /tʃ/ Sound: tu and t + y
Words Ending in -ed
The th Sound
The British /r/
The British /l/
Understanding /l/ Versus /r/
The /v/ Sound
Understanding /b/ Versus /v/
The /w/ Sound
Understanding /v/ Versus /w/
The /s/ and /z/ Sounds
The /ŋg/ Sound: Pronouncing ng
Consonant Clusters
Proper Stress with Adjectives
Phrasal Verbs
Noun Forms of Phrasal Verbs
Abbreviations and Numbers
Names of Places and People
Word Stress Within a Sentence
Lengthening the Main Vowel in Stressed Words
Which Words Should I Stress?
Content Words
Content Words in Detail: Verbs
Stress Nouns but Not Pronouns
Content Words in Detail: Adjectives
Reducing Vowels in Unstressed Words
Weak Forms
Strong Forms
Thought Groups and Focus Words
Contrastive Stress