Advanced American Accent Reduction - English by the Hour

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About English by the Hour offers Voice, Speech & Accent Coaching to foreign-born Executives and Professionals throughout the Bay Area and via the internet using WebEx. We work exclusively with

non-native speakers of American English. That could mean foreign-born professionals, but it might also be people born in the US of non-native speaking parents from other places. We have numerous clients from all regions of the world. We leverage our linguistic knowledge of how other languages affect your American English expression to help you gain the advantage of clarity, confidence, depth, and connection. We speciailize in helping foreign-born executives and professionals polish their English speaking skills, acquire clear diction, learn the American Accent when desired, and acquire Executive Presence in speech, movement, and personal rapport.


Coaches Bud Everts

Rebecca Linquist

Michelle Knoop

Business Conversations & American Accent Acquisition Coach

American Accent Acquisition Coach & Founder

American Accent Acquisition Coach


Services  Internet Coaching in the American Accent & Executive Presence  Corporate Speech Coaching in the American Accent for Executives  Executive Presence  Personal Coaching  Customized Self-Study Programs


Courses American Accent Acquisition Advanced American Accent Acquisition Delivering a Presentation in American English Business Conversations Through Role Playing American English in the Workplace

Vocabulary Building Focused Grammar & Writing Skills


Advanced American Accent Acquisition This course is designed to follow the first accent reduction course. Accent reduction is the process of modifying a person’s pronunciation so their speech is more easily understood by native speakers. Continue to speak with confidence! The 10 session American Accent Acquisition course is required prior to taking the Advanced course.


Accent Reduction Course Outline: English by the hour offers this Advanced American Accent Acquisition course which will help you to improve the sound and style of your speech while focusing on any particular features of your accent that cause unintelligibility as well as an opportunity to

get continued feedback on self-correction and transfer of techniques learned in the first course.


Topics covered by Advanced Course: Contrastive vowel articulation exercises

Words spelled the same way but pronounced differently Exercises to distinguish voiced and voiceless continuants, as in words like “another or suspicious”. In-depth post-vocalic /l/ and /r/ exercises

Pronunciation of US states & cities Pronunciation of country names worldwide Word stress exercises for multi-syllabic words and word families Advanced Intonation Patterns & Dialoging


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Business Email: info@englishbythehour.com Phone: 408 429-3557


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