Accent Softening and Elocution Course
Course
Online
Description
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Type
Course
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Methodology
Online
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Location
London
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Class hours
1h
Objectives. Improve your confidence when speaking English. Learn the importance of rhythm, stress and intonation within the English language. Soften your foreign accent. Learn the correct pronunciation of English vowel and consonant sounds. Enhance your clarity of communication, articulation and diction. Suitable for: Students need to have a good command of the English language, as we only focus on how you are pronouncing words and the intonation you are using.
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About this course
Students need to have a good command of the English language, as we only focus on how you are pronouncing words and the intonation you are using.
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Teachers and trainers (1)
Andre Gottshalk
Tutor
Andre is based in London and has a great passion for Speech, Linguistics and English Language. Andre graduated with a BSc Honours degree in voice and drama, and since then has gained experience working with the BBC and has taken part in various British movies. Andre specialises in coaching and training clients in public speech, elocution, intonation, voice projection and foreign and regional accent reduction. Andre's training began at the prestigious Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, which is part of the University West Of England. You can also watch a very brief lesson, which Andre recently gave to Frank Skinner on the BBC at the below link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1mXaT3BaqU and can read more about him on http://www.sundaysun.co.uk/news/north-east-news/2009/04/12/cowell-wants-elocution-lessons-for-cheryl-cole-79310-23368534/2/
Course programme
Overview
Students will learn the five components of accurate English pronunciation: vowels, consonants, rhythm, stress, and intonation.
The course starts with a linguistic evaluation based on a verbal diagnosis of free speaking, reading text, and reading a dialogue. Based on the evaluation, key areas of focus are determined (both segmental and suprasegmental) to include: pronunciation of individual vowels and consonants, word stress patterns, and intonation patterns, as well as rhythm, linking and articulation.
This course particularly benefits non-native English speakers and native English speakers with a regional accent and teaches them how to speak the Queen's English (RP).
The areas of focus include:
- Pronunciation of individual vowels and consonants:
- Learn the International Phonetic Alphabet
- Practice articulating both long and short vowels
- Learn how to pronounce consonants in all environments: initial, medial, and final
- Tongue twisters & articulation exercises
- Breath exercises
- Word stress patterns:
- Rules of both English and foreign-derived words
- Dividing words into syllables
- Syllable length
- Stressed and unstressed syllables
- Word form stress shift patterns
- Nouns, adjectives & adverbs vs. verbs
- Compound nouns
- Intonation, rhythm, and linking:
- Neutral or "unmarked" patterns for statements and questions
- Contrastive stress and usage
- Content vs. function words
- Rhythm and linking
- Word clustering/grouping and Powerful Pauses
Most importantly: transfer and error correction techniques and exercises to support change!
Additional information
Contact person: Andre
Accent Softening and Elocution Course