Online eLearning Accent Reduction Class Designed for All Languages
It’s frustrating being fluent in English yet still struggling with English pronunciation. Surveys reveal that individuals are comfortable asking someone to repeat themselves twice. If your message was not understood, it is unlikely to be asked a third time. When speech is unclear, it can be more challenging advancing professionally or even enjoying social situations.
Why is Speech Accented?
In general, many accented speakers tend to speak in a monotone, flat style that is too fast and does not have any or minimal pitch changes or vocal variety. Often the sound segments are too short, further creating speech that is choppy, fast and hard to process and understand. Other accented behaviors tend to bring too much emphasis on vowel sounds creating large glides and slides that are outside of the American rules.
You can reduce your accent! With our accent reduction class, you will learn how to speak English fluently, clearly, and with more confidence. Leading meetings, delivering presentations and daily communication will be more enjoyable when you know you are always being understood. There is noticeable improvement in about three weeks.
You Can Reduce Your Accent and Speak with Confidence
It is a matter of:
- Discontinuing the speech habits from your first language that don’t belong in English.
- Speaking English in the American style and not from the rules of your first language
- Learning some new sounds that are not from your first language.
Why Our Online eLearning Accent Reduction Class
- Your timeline. You set the schedule
- Reduce your accent in small increments. You control the pace.
- Access to Liz! Monthly instructional webinars included for feedback and coaching
- Easily reduce your accent with our instructional videos, audio files, practice exercises and other tools
- Stay motivated with weekly emails to check progress and get tips to enhance learning
- Self-evaluation tools in every course so you know where you stand with progress
- Know you mastered it with quizzes at the end of every chapter
- Discounts on private coaching
- Certificate of Completion
- Join our community. Ask questions anytime, read posts, and interact with members
JOIN our Community! Always have access to Liz to ask questions, read posts, and talk to other participants. Learn more, together.
You Choose How You Reduce Your Accent
Three Course Packages to Choose From
Quick English Clarity Three Courses
- American Intonation: The Number One Most Important Skill for Reducing Accent
- How to Pronounce the American Consonant Sounds
- How to Pronounce the American Vowel Sounds
- One webinar entry
Accent Reduction 101 Five Courses, the Book and Community Access
- American Intonation: The Number One Most Important Skill for Reducing Accent
- Sound like a Leader
- Speak from a Stronger and More Powerful Voice
- How to Pronounce the American Consonant Sounds
- How to Pronounce the American Vowel Sounds
- 2 Webinar Entries
- Community Access- Ask questions anytime, new articles/posts and connect with students
*Bonus Material- eBook- Accent Reduction 101: Speaking English Closer to the American Cultural and Business Style 4th ed. 2024 includes 12-hours of audio files with expanded information and listen and repeat style exercises.
Accent Reduction 101 Seven Courses, the book and Community Access Bonus Material: Public Speaking Course
- American Intonation: The Number One Most Important Skill for Reducing Accent
- Sound like a Leader
- Speak from a Stronger and More Powerful Voice
- Diaphragm Breathing: How to Coordinate Speech and Talking
- How to Pronounce the American Consonant Sounds
- How to Pronounce the American Vowel Sounds
- Become a Powerhouse Speaker
- 3 Webinar Entries
- 15% discount for any private coaching programs including public speaking and presentation training or live group webinars
- Community Access- Ask questions anytime, new articles/posts and connect with students
*Bonus Material- eBook- Accent Reduction 101: Speaking English Closer to the American Cultural and Business Style 4th ed. 2024 includes 12-hours of audio files with expanded information and listen and repeat style exercises.
You Choose How You Reduce Your Accent
Three Course Packages to Choose From
Quick English Clarity Three Courses
- American Intonation: The Number One Most Important Skill for Reducing Accent
- How to Pronounce the American Consonant Sounds
- How to Pronounce the American Vowel Sounds
- One webinar entry
Accent Reduction 101 Five Courses, the Book and Community Access
- American Intonation: The Number One Most Important Skill for Reducing Accent
- Sound like a Leader
- Speak from a Stronger and More Powerful Voice
- How to Pronounce the American Consonant Sounds
- How to Pronounce the American Vowel Sounds
- 2 Webinar Entries
- Community Access– Ask questions anytime, new articles/posts and connect with students
- *Bonus Material– eBook- Accent Reduction 101: Speaking English Closer to the American Cultural and Business Style 4th ed. 2024 includes 12-hours of audio files with expanded information and listen and repeat style exercises.
Accent Reduction 101 Seven Courses, the book and Community Access Bonus Material: Public Speaking Course
- American Intonation: The Number One Most Important Skill for Reducing Accent
- Sound like a Leader
- Speak from a Stronger and More Powerful Voice
- Diaphragm Breathing: How to Coordinate Speech and Talking
- How to Pronounce the American Consonant Sounds
- How to Pronounce the American Vowel Sounds
- Become a Powerhouse Speaker
- 3 Webinar Entries
- 15% discount for any private coaching programs including public speaking and presentation training or live group webinars
- Community Access– Ask questions anytime, new articles/posts and connect with students
- *Bonus Material– eBook- Accent Reduction 101: Speaking English Closer to the American Cultural and Business Style 4th ed. 2024 includes 12-hours of audio files with expanded information and listen and repeat style exercises.
Five Courses in One Package
Instructor: Elizabeth Peterson, speech-language pathologist with over 20 years of experience
American Intonation
The Number One Most Important Skill for Reducing an Accent
If you want to reduce your accent quickly, the number one and most important skill is to speak with American intonation, the culturally correct melody and rule pattern for English. Most people speak English from the melody pattern or rules from their first language causing their speech to sound too fast, monotone, choppy, and outside of the American cultural style.
In this course, you will learn an easy strategy called the Speech Stairs Strategy that will give you the framework to speak English clearly with American rules. The habits from your first language will be minimized or eliminated. You will notice improvement with clarity and confidence in about three weeks.
By the end of this course, the following objectives will be achieved:
- Speak English clearly using the Speech Stairs Strategy, the American rule for melody patterns
- Speak English with cultural correctness at the conversational level
- Eliminate the habits that cause unclear English such as sounding monotone, or speaking too fast, forceful or choppy
- Implement three real-world strategies for practicing skills at work and in the community
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Sound like a Leader
Enjoy speaking clearly while being viewed as a leader as you express your points with advanced American intonation and practical conversational exercises. Learn how to identify and eliminate ineffective behaviors that can compromise credibility for effective leadership when it comes to communication. Weak vocabulary, use of filler words (a poor American habit), and other behaviors that can minimize authority will be revealed. By the end of this course, you will be speaking clearly with new skills on how to improve your communication to enhance your leadership image.
By the end of this course, the following objectives will be achieved:
- Speak English clearly for complex conversation such as leading meetings or delivering a presentation
- Identify the three types of up-speak behavior and utilize strategies to eliminate it (This habit may be cultural but it really diminishes leadership persona)
- Replace minimizing vocabulary with more relevant terminology
- Apply strategic pauses to be a more powerful speaker
- Pose questions to sound more like an authority with your subject
- Apply the “cure” to stop “verbal viruses” from discrediting your message. A bad American speech habit of using filler words such as (um, uh, like, so, etc.)
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How to Speak with a Stronger and More Powerful Voice
Often due to culture, the voice can sound too high or thin in pitch, or have too much nasal resonance. This course will teach you how to place your voice to speak with tones that are strong, powerful, and can project from your best vocal pitch range. American resonance is taught so it is fully understood how to place speech in the mouth and other resonating cavities. Tones that sound too soft, weak, or nasal do not sound as confident as those with more powerful voices in American business culture. Communication will sound more professional, confident, and culturally correct with American resonance when vocal tones are strong and your speech is clear due to successfully reducing your accent.
By the end of this course, the following objectives will be achieved:
- Speak from a stronger and more powerful voice
- Access the power spot in your voice with several approaches
- Eliminate a voice that sounds week, too high in pitch, or has too much nasal resonance
- Understand the three types of American resonance and where to place your speech sound waves
- Communicate with American oral resonance to have more culturally correct and polished English
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Diaphragm Breathing
How to Coordinate Speech and Talking
Often accented speakers who come from a language where the speech is mostly monotone or too fast, speak from a shallow breath. This can lead to not having enough breath to finish a thought. Learning how to speak from a diaphragm breath will give you enough air to finish your thoughts and a strategy for managing speech that is too fast. Communicating your valuable points will be more fluid and comfortable from full breaths. In addition, your voice will have better natural projection.
- Coordinate diaphragm breathing and talking for better clarity and more comfort
- Eliminate short and shallow chest breathing
- Utilize diaphragm breathing as a strategy for managing speech anxiety
- Increase vocal power with improved projection
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How to Pronounce the American Consonant Sounds
Learn the missing sounds from your English. Although it may seem that your accent has a lot of mistakes, having a foreign accent has more to do with incorrect use of American intonation as opposed to missing sounds. Typical accented speakers only need to learn a few sounds such as /th/ since it does not exist in most languages. Sounds that involve lip and jaw movement such as /f, v, w, r, p, b/ are often mispronounced since many cultures do not move their lip or jaw enough for what is required for American English. Regardless of which sounds need support, all American consonants have full instruction in this course.
By the end of this course, the following objectives will be achieved:
- Learn how to correctly pronounce all American consonant sounds
- Understand the mistakes made when learning new sounds and how to correct them
- Identify unique nuances of American English that will further improve clarity
- Apply strategies for pronouncing sounds correctly for higher demand communication such as delivering a presentation or leading a meeting
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How to Pronounce the American Vowel Sounds
Gain instruction for all of the American vowel sounds including a deep dive into vocalic /R/ and /L/. Much of what will make vowels better approximate to the correct form is speaking with American oral resonance where sounds are placed in the mouth cavity and not in the lower throat or nasal cavity. This course is very comprehensive with multiple exercises on how to pronounce vowel sounds more clearly and closer to the American style.
By the end of this course, the following objectives will be achieved:
- Learn how to correctly pronounce all American vowel sounds
- Speak with American oral resonance at the conversational level for culturally correct and professional sounding English
- Understand how important lip and jaw movement is to pronounce vowel sounds
- Pronounce vocalic /R/ and /L/ with improved accuracy
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Become a Powerhouse Speaker
Now that you have successfully reduced your accent, learn how to deliver a presentation that sounds clear, smart, and memorable. Learn how to organize content in a concise manner and organize slides in a modern style that is more visually pleasing. If delivering a presentation has been undesirable due to struggles with an accent or speech anxiety, walk away with many proven physical and cognitive strategies that will increase confidence. Body language techniques are presented for how to look confident and what to do with those hands. By the end of this course, you will be looking forward to your next presentation.
By the end of this course, the following objectives will be achieved:
- Understand how to be an interesting storyteller for every type of presentation
- Learn how to “ground yourself” to appear strong and confident
- Develop an action plan for combating state fright with proven physical and cognitive strategies
- Organize slide content according to modern principles (less is more)
- Learn multiple strategies for answering unexpected questions and managing audience expectations
- Apply a variety of body language techniques that demonstrate confidence and authority for both in-person and online presentations
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Look What Former Clients Say about Working with Us!
“Liz is awesome. She has provided me with all the best tools to implement in my setting. I am effectively communicating in my meetings and presentations. She is full of so much energy. Liz is a true expert and professional. She is able to take a concept and break it down into useful information you can use beyond the class.”
“Her class has taught me to slow down. Liz’s teaching style is so different from what I have had before. She is about how to deliver that message clearly and with impact. She also focuses on how you sound. You know that when you sound good that you are confident. She knows that based on how you sound is how you will appear. Her training has helped me so much. I feel ready to deliver a presentation.”
Frequently Asked Questions
How long is there access to the course?
Is online as good as private instruction?
We did our best to make it so! These online courses cover all of the essential topics that would be taught in our private classes. Each video demonstrates instruction that a private client would receive. The printed and auditory files come from the book. You can join our webinars for personal feedback and additional coaching. It is of course not the same as working directly with a coach but it is close.
*The book is available for purchase to have all of the content and auditory files together.