Author name: derrah

Trust is Key For many of you who want to reduce foreign or regional accents, one of the main motivations to do so are underlying feelings of embarrassment, self-consciousness, and shame about the way you speak. Perhaps you have been frequently asked to repeat yourself when the listener did not understand what was said the […]

An “Ah Hah” Moment in Accent Reduction Training While recently working with a new Accent Reduction training client, who happened to be from Romania, I was able to teach her something that astounded her and produced an overwhelming reaction. This client had been consistently pronouncing all words ending with an ‘ng’, such as ‘string’, ‘long’,

A Chinese client of mine relayed a story to me about how his five year old son helps him with his English pronunciation.