Accent Classes: improving your pronunciation skills

What should be the main goal of any pronunciation class or course?
What are the kinds of exercises that will help you improve your pronunciation?

First, the main goal of any Elocution/pronunciation course should be to focus on accent reduction, not accent elimination, which is technically impossible. Students should work on reducing areas of their pronunciation and enunciation that make it difficult for native speakers to understand them.

Second, with this goal in mind, students need to be able to identify which areas of pronunciation and enunciation give them the most inaudibility; such as vowel and consonant sounds, word and sentence stress, word reductions, linking, and intonation.

Finally, you need to practice these structured exercises for extemporaneous speech in different situations, because practice makes perfect. Improving your pronunciation will take a lot of patience and commitment, but the end product - your unique, well-developed voice - is worth it!

Benefits:

• Greater confidence when speaking in public,  business and social situations
• Better Communication with people at conferences, meetings, Retail (sales) and or on the telephone
• Assist scholars learning the TEFL course
• Greater awareness of how to use the voice effectively
• Professionalize the way you speak
• Improved results when you need to get your ideas across
• Elocution Techniques to control and project your voice
• A reduction of any specific features of voice including a regional or national accent
• Clear speech and diction (pronunciation) in a neutral accent helping you reach your potential and goals.

Blended Online, Audio Clips

Course Outline:

•     Audio clips of all exercises enhance learning;
•     How to develop your voice using posture, relaxation + breathing;
•     Neutralizing any accent – resonance, pitch + tone;
•     Eliminating any/all speech faults – stuttering, mumbling;
•     Birth defects such as cleft palate/ cleft lip;
•     Strengthening weak oral muscles – production in R, TH, THR, TR combinations;
•     Reducing any accent: Collard, Xhosa, Zulu, Sotho, Cameroon, Zimbabwean, Afrikaans, French; English (England), American, Chinese, Taiwanese, Italian, Spanish etc.;
•     Communication skills in a private, public and corporate setting;
•     Public Speaking and confidence building;
•     Maximizing your vocal capacity gives you versatility and dynamics when speaking;
•     Enhancing your tone so as to develop an assertive and authoritative speaking pattern;
•     You will have better diction and clarity – articulation and enunciation;
•     Switchboard, private and public sector and corporate sector, answering (phones), Front of house sales, etc;
•     You will learn how to gain confidence in speech within your working environment – verbal dynamics;
•     SWOT analysis;
•     Understanding your strengths and weaknesses and developing positive affirmations;
•     Overcoming all threats (fear, failure, criticisms etc.).

Biebie Productions facilitator: Barbara Barbieri, is passionate, highly skilled and experienced to help you achieve your goals. Working in the industry for more than 18yrs, we pride ourselves in using innovative, effective practical methods and techniques that will change your life forever. We strive to deliver an unparalleled level of excellence in the industry by continuously refining our processes and procedures.

Biebie Productions trains winners!

Company Strategy

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•     Mission statement: To change one life at a time with the courses I provide.
•     Core values: We believe in treating our customers with respect and faith• We grow through creativity, invention and innovation.• We integrate honesty, integrity and business ethics into all aspects of our business functioning
•     Goals• Making our client's goals come true. • Utilizing online platforms to make learning accessible.