If you would like to speak to your dog with a French accent, bonne chance! If you would like to speak English with a standard American accent, contact Clearly Speaking today.
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A stray dog in London, whose trainer at the rescue shelter speaks with a French accent, now only responds to commands "given a la francais." To read more, click here.
If you would like to speak to your dog with a French accent, bonne chance! If you would like to speak English with a standard American accent, contact Clearly Speaking today.
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Everyone speaks with an accent. When a child learns to speak, he or she mimics the sounds of the language of adults. When an adult learns a seconds language, the patterns and sounds of the first language can influence how he or she speaks the second language. Recently, a language scholar has posited that the Australian accent arose because the adults were drunk so often that the children grew up speaking with slurred sounds and dropped syllables, even the teetotalers! Click here to read more.
If you have an accent that is not influenced by alcohol, and would like to learn to speak with a more standard American accent, contact Clearly Speaking today. Preparing for auditions, whether for competition or for specific operas, is a complex and demanding process. You must choose the best arias for your voice right now, learn the translations, read the libretti, clarify your diction, learn the actual notes (and yes, this step is overlooked more often than you might think), make musical choices for phrasing, dynamics, ornamentation, cadenzas, etc., create a dramatic interpretation, and eventually actually sing them for a panel of auditors!
This article from Opera News offers pertinent insight into choosing and presenting your audition arias. To read the article, click here. If you would like to work on improving your diction or developing your dramatic interpretation, contact our studio today. For the new Daily Show host, Trevor Noah, pronunciation differences are another source of comedic fun: Click Here to watch a clip.
If your accent and pronunciation impact your ability to communicate professionally, it's no laughing matter. To learn how you can reduce your accent and be understood the first time, every time, contact Clearly Speaking today. Doc Rivers' job has him trying to be heard over the roar of 20,000 people 82 nights a year, and he is known for how hoarse his voice is. To hear Jamie Foxx do an impression of Rivers' voice, click here.
If your job requires you to use your voice a lot, and you would like to keep your voice happy and healthy throughout the day, Contact Clearly Speaking to learn how! The prospect of speaking in public can be daunting or even overwhelming. Fortunately, there a ways to make speaking in public easier, or even enjoyable! Click here to read some helpful ideas.
If you would like to learn to speak in public with confidence, contact Clearly Speaking today. When you're having a party, playing with accents can be fun. There's even a new accent guessing game, Accentuate, that "will have you laughing your accents off," which was a recent winner on BBC's The Dragon's Den.
In your professional life, if your accent makes it difficult for others to understand you, it can interfere with your ability to do your job effectively. For help with accent reduction, contact Clearly Speaking today. Our accents give spice to our speech, and are part of our expressive personality. As the global community grows smaller, some dialects are beginning to disappear. Click here to read more about ongoing research in this area.
Sometimes, however, an accent creates a barrier to communication, by making it difficult to be understood when you speak. If you would like to learn to reduce your accent, and be understood the first time, every time, contact Clearly Speaking today. For many, many years Public Speaking was ranked as the thing we feared most (ahead of death, spiders and snakes). A recent study finds that Public Speaking is no longer our greatest fear, at least for Millennials and Gen X: click here to read more...
If you still would rather die than speak in public, and would like to learn to overcome your fear, contact Clearly Speaking for Public Speaking Training today. As we age, like every other part of the body, there are changes in our voices. The vocal cords tend to thin out, and our voices become "creaky" or "raspy." Fortunately, like the rest of the body, the vocal cords can stay stronger and "younger" when you use optimal, healthy voice techniques. To learn more about healthy voice techniques, click here.
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AuthorBrenda Nuckton, MA, CCC-SLP Archives
January 2019
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Clearly Speaking can help you speak with a standard American accent, offering training in accent reduction, accent modification, correct English pronunciation, prosody, vowel sounds, and consonant sounds. We are located in Portland, OR and provide services to the greater Portland area.
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Learn healthy voice techniques. Voice disorders, vocal fatigue, hoarseness, vocal tension all impact communication. Clearly Speaking helps you learn healthy voice techniques: vocal hygiene, optimal breath/voice coordination, breath support, eliminate vocal fry, learn forward resonance & efficient use of the speaking voice. Also offering transgender voice training.
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Clearly Speaking offers training in public speaking for lectures, presentations, teaching, reports, debates, webinars and any public speaking situation.
We also provide training in accent reduction, healthy vocal habits, lisp correction and public speaking techniques |