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Do you cringe when you hear your natural voice? Do you wish you had one of those sounds that could turn heads and steal energy?

Not everyone can afford private English pronunciation lessons, and that's why I offer small group lessons. This can work two ways. 1) If you have your own small group, you can schedule a private lesson, with as many people as you'd like, and then split the cost. The lesson can still be on Zoom. or 2) If you don't have your own small group, you can join one of my pre-scheduled small groups (found at www.smooth-english/services) Whether you create your own small group or

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I've had many different types of students. All my students have different goals and diverse learning styles. I love adapting to everyone's individual needs. Let's look at a sample of students and how they have spent their time with me. Student 1 (the typical student): She buys a 20 hour package and wants colleagues and customers to be able to understand her. After assessing her speaking test, I outline what we will work work on. We generally start with her problematic co

I'm excited to meet my YouTube, Udemy and Skillshare students and answer your questions. I am your American accent coach. This way you can make sure you are learning correctly and I can improve my services by finding out what kinds of questions you have. Learning English online can save you a lot of time and money, compared to learning at a school, but you want to make sure you're getting some feedback so you stay on the right track. That is why you should come to my free

If you want to learn the American accent, you need to learn the melody of English, which includes intonation and primary phrase stress. Intonation is the rising or falling pitch that that begins on the primary phrase stress. Primary Phrase Stress (PPS) is the loudest word in a phrase, or thought unit. General Rule: PPS falls on the last new content word in the phrase. Content words consist of nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs. The match was between the TWO of them.

A good accent reduction coach will teach you sentence rhythm to perfect your American accent.

Smooth English has a series of iPhone and iPad Apps for teaching American English pronunciation and aural discrimination skills. Check our App Store for releases. Each App is targeted toward a specific language background because learners from different language backgrounds make different errors when speaking English. Not only do they struggle with producing different sounds, but they make different types of errors for the same target sounds. For instance, while a Vietna

Squeeze in small amounts of practice whenever/wherever you can. 1. At your lesson, pick 5-10 difficult words or phrases and write each on a sticky note. Post the notes near your computer at work. Then you'll look at them several times a day. Look at them before you take a walk down the hall to the restroom. Then practice saying them on your break. After a week, check with your teacher or a native speaker how you're doing with each word/phrase on your sticky note. Once y