American accent Training: The perils of trusting outdated information The overall process to reduce your native accent and can be a long and difficult road, especially if proper teaching methods and materials are not employed. American accent training has become increasingly popular due to overseas travel, social media and a general desire to assimilate to [...]
Accent Reduction Programs: Identifying Regional Accents in the US Effective communication is a key to success in all industries. Regardless of how efficiently a company is run, any lapse in how information is being shared automatically affects the line of communication between employees and subordinates and vice-versa. Miscommunication can potentially lead to critical misunderstandings. Accent reduction [...]
Accent Reduction Tips Many of our clients at Accent Pros, who come in for accent reduction sessions, have advanced degrees and have excellent command of the English language. Given the evolving state of the English language; however, they may not understand informal slang and phrases that are regularly used in the workplace, and on various [...]
Accent Reduction Tips: Our Ongoing Idioms Series Many of our clients with accent reduction goals have advanced degrees and have excellent command of the English language. Given the constantly evolving state of the English language, they may not understand informal slang used during workplace conversations or on various popular social media platforms such as Facebook [...]
American Dialects in California Upon closer inspection, the American accents and American dialects found in the cities and towns that comprise California have proven to be relatively resistant to the broad generalizations which characterize dialect zones linguists use to divide the United States. California experienced a massive influx of English speakers and immigrants from other [...]
Does singing truly negate individual accents? If you were to scan the playlist on your personal music player, paying attention only to how clearly the lyrics are pronounced in a given song, you'd be surprised to note that, irrespective of factors such as genre, musicianship, vocal style and melody, a singer's native accent normally isn't [...]
Speech in "The Big Apple" The New York City accent is one of the most polarizing regional accents found in the United States. Some people believe the accent to be an extension of the speaker"s presumed "tough" personality, a stereotypical trait that has been broadly applied to all New Yorkers by non natives. Although the [...]
Individuals who speak standard American English are usually able to notice when someone else speaks with a different, more foreign accent. However, these American English-speaking individuals may sometimes believe their own way of speaking contains no accent at all, when in turn, it actually does. What most of these native English speakers don’t realize is [...]
Books, lectures, and other learning materials are helpful resources when it comes to providing basic information on a specific topic. If you are looking to learn more about the sounds of the Standard American accent, you may find it most beneficial to first try out an American accent tutorial. Not only will a tutorial provide [...]
