Individual English Pronunciation Course for Readers: accent reduction

Reduce your accent fast with an individual English pronunciation course, designed for readers of English Highlights Join this 1:1 English pronunciation course to reduce your accent when speaking 7 hours of live classes to work on your sounds, intonation & connected speech Practice with poems or famous novels to develop a neutral accent Correction by your native speaker English teacher for accent reduction Reduce your accent in this 7 hour individual English pronunciation course with a literature theme. Each week you learn about a particular aspect of pronunciation, practice it in the session and at home - with a native speaker model to compare with. Improve specific areas of phonology - sounds, word stress, sentence stress, rhythm, linking. Personalised feedback improves your accent, intelligibility and accuracy. The Individual English Pronunciation Course For Readers This is a 7 week course. In each of the seven sessions you: give a micro presentation read a short literary text out loud learn about and practise one of the core areas below: Session 1: The essential features of English phonology - weak forms, linking, the, a/an Session 2: Making sounds: vowels and diphthongs Session 3: Making sounds: consonants and consonant clusters Session 4: Intonation and sentence stress - types of question, emphasising, conveying meaning Session 5: Word stress - word stress families Session 6: Silent letters, homophones and homographs Session 7: Twinning /s/; Pronunciation of regular past; linking /r/; Intrusive /r/; Weak form of “been”/Elision of /h/ Geoff says: "This is a great way to reduce your accent, becoming more intelligible, clearer and more international in your use of English - in just 7 weeks." Times available between 10.00 and 17.00 C.E.T Contact Geoff to arrange a suitable day and time. Click Add to Cart to reserve your place. Age 16+ What you learn on this individual English pronunciation course To make the sounds of English correctly To be aware of and use English stress and rhythm To link common words together to make a linguistic chunk To be aware of changed pronunciations of key stressed words To be aware of the differences between how words are written & spoken Your teacher Geoff Hardy-Gould, BSc, MBA, CTEFLA, DTEFLA. Over 20 years' experience of UK language schools. Speaker at: 2026 IATEFL Conference; 2025 Literature SIG Conference; 2024 IATEFL Conference; 2023 IATEFL TechLit! Exploring crossovers between technology and literature; 2022 Extensive Reading Foundation; 2021 TESOL Italia