Lisa’s Blog
4 Tips to Improve Your American Accent Fast
Master the American Accent with 4 tips to improve your accent fast. Use these tips at work when speaking to colleagues and clients to help you speak more clearly and confidently.
Tips for apologizing in English at work
Knowing how to apologize well in English is an important skill for your professional life. We all need to apologize at one time or another, whether it is to our coworkers, clients, customers or bosses. Apologizing is never fun, but it’s necessary to repair and strengthen relationships at work.
Six Tips for a Successful Job Interview Even Though You Have a Strong Accent
People often take accent reduction lessons with me in order to prepare for a job interview in English. Many of my one-on-one students are even more qualified than native speakers who are applying for the same position. But they’re terrified that the interviewers will...
15 Reasons For Taking Accent Reduction Courses
Keep reading to find out directly from my students the top 15 reasons my students gave for taking an Accent Reduction Course, and see how many ways it can help your daily life.
How to Pronounce the word THE – three rules
Learn the two different ways to pronounce the article "the". Sometimes we pronounce it as "thee" with a long /i/ sound. Learn the rules in this video. But first, make sure that you can correctly pronounce the TH sound. Lightly touch your upper...
The 2nd Edition of “Mastering The American Accent” Is Here
The second edition of "Mastering the American Accent" just became available for sale. You can buy it on Amazon or wherever books are sold. It has a lot more practice exercises for syllable stress and word stress and sentence rhythm. These are very important skills...
Accent reduction – difficult American vowel sounds
One of the most difficult things about learning to speak with an American accent is knowing how to correctly pronounce different vowel sounds that may sound similar to you. Here are some very common mistakes that my accent reduction students make: Do you know the...
English Vowels – Pronunciation Test
Check your knowledge of American English vowel sounds by taking this test In the chart below, read the words in each line. Decide which word (A, B, C, or D) is pronounced with a different vowel sound from the other three words. If you think that all four words are...
Speak English with a more powerful voice
A lot of my students struggle with various voice issues. All of these issues can prevent you from speaking English clearly and may make your foreign accent even stronger. For example: Speaking too fast Speaking with a weak voice Breathing incorrectly Mumbling (not...