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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…
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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…
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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…
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Some suffixes have two parts. Two-syllable words will have one syllable stressed with higher pitch and longer vowel duration and one syllable not…
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Consonants that are their own syllables are called "syllabics" and the "syllabic-N" is the most common one. You’ve been hearing the syllabic-N all…
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What can I answer?Let’s get this started - What would you like to learn more about to speak American English more clearly?
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I got this notice from Meetup.com about my American English Pronunciation Q&A Meetup group celebrating its sixth anniversary. I was surprised that it’s…
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I asked some of my clients how public speaking skills affect their careers and here are some of their answers. None of these people mentioned speaking…
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What's the difference? This article will help you understand why:Looks like, “ice tea.” Sounds like, “ais tee.” The IPA transcription: /'ɑ͜ɪsti/Looks…
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I’ve taught many speakers of other languages and other Englishes who were surprised to find out that what they thought sounded polite didn’t sound…
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EAR: Expectation - Action - Review = Build a Positive Upward Spiral - No matter how you’re learning and working on improving your English speaking…
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What you notice in other languages is what is different from your own. In the video, there are some real words, but the majority of the speaking is…
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