Archive for the ‘Accent Reduction’ Category



Accent Reduction Tips for Indonesian Speakers

posted on January 12th, 2012

The Indonesian language has its own particular sounds and patterns for pronunciation. When an Indonesian speaker learns another language, these speech patterns may act as a barrier to the pronunciation of English.  This results in an accented English, such as the “Indonesian accent”.

Indonesian speakers tend to have some common difficulties when producing spoken English and if you come from an Indonesian background, you may find the following tips useful to help you improve your English pronunciation.

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Accent Reduction Tips for Chinese Speakers

posted on June 15th, 2010

The Chinese language has its own particular sounds and patterns for pronunciation. When a Chinese speaker learns English, these speech patterns may act as a barrier to the pronunciation of English.  This results in an accented English, such as the “Chinese accent”.

Chinese speakers tend to have some common difficulties when producing spoken English and if you come from an Chinese speaking background, you may find the following tips useful to help you improve your English pronunciation.

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Accent Reduction Tips for Indian Speakers

posted on June 9th, 2010

Indian languages have their own particular sounds and patterns for pronunciation. When an Indian speaker learns English, these speech patterns may act as a barrier to the pronunciation of English.  This results in an accented English, such as the “Indian accent”.

Indian speakers tend to have some common difficulties when producing spoken English and if you come from an Indian speaking background, you may find the following tips useful to help you improve your English pronunciation.

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Accent Reduction Tips for Japanese Speakers

posted on June 9th, 2010

The Japanese language has its own particular sounds and patterns for pronunciation. When a Japanese speaker learns English, these speech patterns may act as a barrier to the pronunciation of English.  This results in an accented English, such as the “Japanese accent”.

Japanese speakers tend to have some common difficulties when producing spoken English and if you come from an Japanese speaking background, you may find the following tips useful to help you improve your English pronunciation.

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Ten Tips to Improve your English Speaking Skills

posted on May 21st, 2010

The following 10 tips will help you to improve your English speaking skills and help you feel more confident when you talk.

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Miscommunication in the medical context

posted on May 13th, 2010

Overseas-trained medical professionals are valued in Australia and enrich our multicultural society.  They play an important role in meeting a skills shortage and in fact, in many rural and remote areas in particular, the local population are heavily dependent on overseas-trained doctors.  However, many overseas trained doctors may from time-to-time, experience difficulties in communicating with their patients due to the considerable variation of their backgrounds.

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How to lose your accent

posted on May 12th, 2010

Speaking English with a strong accent can sometimes be a frustrating experience for even the most highly educated foreign language speakers.  Being misunderstood, or perhaps not being able to get your point across can make you lose confidence and may even make you avoid speaking.   So how can you lose your accent and improve your communication with other people?

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Doctors benefit from accent reduction training

posted on May 11th, 2010

Communication is vital between doctors and patients to ensure effective patient care.  Many overseas trained doctors understand this and are now seeking accent reduction training to help them to improve their communication skills with patients and colleagues.  The results of training have shown to increase confidence, improve relationships with others and enhance the doctor / patient relationship.
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Learn Accent reduction online

posted on May 5th, 2010

Do you want to reduce your accent to help you get a job, improve your career or to communicate better with clients and colleagues? Do you prefer the convenience of training in your own home? Well you can when you learn accent reduction online.
When you study online you improve your listening skills, learn how to change your speech pronunciation patterns and with practice and guidance, you will be able to improve your English pronunciation to help you communicate more clearly and successfully with other people.

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What is an accent?

posted on April 22nd, 2010

An accent is the way in which a language is pronounced.  Everybody has an accent. It is the result of contact with different people at different times in our lives.  A person’s accent depends on many factors, but can classified as regional or foreign.  

A regional accent is determined by where the person lives and what social groups they belong to. People who live in close contact grow to share a way of speaking, or accent, which will differ from the way other groups in other places speak.  A foreign accent occurs when a person speaks one language using some of the rules or sounds of another language.   Having an accent is natural for speakers of second or third languages.

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How to Improve English Communication Skills

posted on April 13th, 2010

The ability to communicate clearly in English is essential for individuals and businesses who work in countries where English is the main language.  Indeed for individuals and businesses worldwide who want to do business in English speaking countries, good English communication skills are vital to business success.

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Improve your English proununciation skills.

posted on August 25th, 2009

Do you have difficulty with your English pronunciation? Do people find it difficult to understand you, and because of this – do you avoid speaking English?

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Accent Reduction Hints

posted on July 16th, 2009

Learn how to speak more clearly in English.

Read these 10 Accent Reduction hints to improve your English pronunciation and communication skills.

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