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Coaching: Accent Reduction
Who are you?
You speak English as a second language and feel self-conscious when you speak in person and over the telephone. You struggle with pronouncing certain sounds correctly and find you are often embarrassed and afraid to speak. You must improve to advance in your career or your personal life. You don’t want to take another English class; you need someone to help you specifically with your accent. You want accent reduction but don't know how to make the changes in your accent.
English is Your First Language. You have found that people often have difficulty understanding you due to speaking too fast, or slurring your words, or maybe a regional dialect. You may have problems with pitch, anxiety in your voice or poor articulation. You want to improve the way you speak because you are aiming for higher success.
What you want
You want to fix the problems with your speech, reduce anxiety about speaking in public, gain confidence in speaking, being more articulate, and fix problems in pitch, diction, vocal variety and enunciation.
Some of the problems you may face are:
• Cutting of the ends of words
• Speaking too fast and muddled, especially when you are nervous
• Your pitch is too high or too low, or you speak in monotone
• You think faster than you speak, and this causes mistakes and jumbled words
• You mispronounce words, and don’t use the right intonation
What I offer
• Extensive assessment to identify your specific problems
• Techniques to correct your problems
• Daily practice techniques to solve problems in accent, diction, elocution, voice quality
• Good habits to work your new skills into every day speech
• The goal is to make your speech easier to understand, and easy on the ears
• Fun and lively sessions that makes your journey fun!
Accent Reduction for Actors and On-Air Media Personalities
Breaking into the English-speaking market can be a challenge if you have a strong accent. Accent reduction coaching with Lisa Jeffery not only helps you to speak better, but helps you increase your confidence when speaking English. Lisa builds on her combined experience as a speech professor, a former television and radio broadcaster, and her own accent reduction experience in French to make speeches to thousands of people in France and Monaco. Located in Miami, Lisa's accent reduction clients include broadcasters, actresses, and television personalities who want to break into the English speaking media. She has worked with several agents and television networks, with clients from Cuba, Puerto Rico, Europe, the Caribbean and South America.
What You Want
You want to not only to correct your serious accent errors, but to improve your confidence in English, without losing your personality. You want to improve your articulation, enunciation, rate of speech and vocal variety that is required in English. You also must work with teleprompters, and as English words aren’t pronounced how they are spelled, you want to prevent reading aloud problems.
Lisa Jeffery Offers Accent Reduction specially designed for you
A customized coaching program to assess and identify your specific challenges and a foundation for you to build new talking skills into your everyday routine
• Proven techniques to get you to hear your errors in your accent and correct them
• Omit mistakes in pronunciation, enunciation and articulation
• Tactics to build your confidence and tame your anxiety
• Vocabulary building techniques that you can do every day
• Get the muddy and slushy speech out of your mouth
• Reading English and becoming accustomed to the strange pronunciations
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