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Top 20 Most Requested Words to Pronounce in 2022
from my American English Pronunciation Q&A Meetup group - Most of the words on this list are spelled differently than they sound or they have more than…
Christi Barb, PhD
Jan 24
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Fresh Start
If you haven’t been sure where to start to make improvements to your English speaking and listening skills this year, I hope I can provide you with…
Christi Barb, PhD
Jan 10
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December 2022
Speaking Skills in Academia
How to Help Listeners Follow Your Ideas - Speech features that professors can learn how to modify to be more easily understood by unfamiliar listeners…
Christi Barb, PhD
Dec 13, 2022
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Speaking Skills in Academia
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November 2022
Speaking Skills at C-Level
What you can learn from people at the top - If an accent wasn’t an issue that held them back throughout their career, why start working on it at such a…
Christi Barb, PhD
Nov 29, 2022
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Speaking and Listening Skills for International Workplaces
Resources for how to improve listening, intercultural, and conversational skills
Christi Barb, PhD
Nov 15, 2022
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Speaking Skills in Start-Ups
Start-ups are a microcosm of the entire career spectrum from school to CEO. All the responsibilities are there but shrunken down into a much smaller…
Christi Barb, PhD
Nov 1, 2022
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October 2022
Newly Promoted
How to Practice Your New Vocabulary - A major shift in responsibilities happens with promotions that put people in positions that require much more…
Christi Barb, PhD
Oct 18, 2022
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300th Day of Writing
Finished! Not Finished! I don't know how long I've said I wanted to write my own book and I finally did it.
Christi Barb, PhD
Oct 6, 2022
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300th Day of Writing
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September 2022
Preparing for Promotion
It's Never Too Early to Start. It's Never Too Late to Start. -- Today, I’m focusing on the reasons clients have sought speech coaching to put themselves…
Christi Barb, PhD
Sep 20, 2022
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Interview Preparation
Organize, Not Memorize - Whatever you choose to do, you should make it easy to remember the what to say so you’ll have the brain space to remember how…
Christi Barb, PhD
Sep 6, 2022
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Interview Preparation
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August 2022
Speaking Skills Throughout Your Career
Starting with Graduate School - Amaya’s goal when she started working with me wasn’t to sound just like an American English speaker, it was to gain…
Christi Barb, PhD
Aug 23, 2022
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Pronunciation of Suffixes with Schwa
Some suffixes have two parts. Two-syllable words will have one syllable stressed with higher pitch and longer vowel duration and one syllable not…
Christi Barb, PhD
Aug 9, 2022
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