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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
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

December 2022

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

November 2022

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
Resources for how to improve listening, intercultural, and conversational skills
Christi Barb, PhD
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

October 2022

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
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

September 2022

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
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

August 2022

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
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
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