If You Speak English with an Accent, Here’s a Reality Check Periodically, someone will call to ask me if I do “accent reduction coaching” — in other words, can I make their accents go away? As it happens, I don’t do that kind of coaching; but more importantly, I’ll usually ask why they’re interested. And Read More
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Public Speaking Skills: NPR’s “Car Guys” Had Perfect Articulation
Articulation (ar-Tic -You-LAY-Shun!) is one of the public speaking skills I often suggest that people practice on their friends. But how do you practice it? Well — as this performance of “The Rain in Spain Stays Mainly on the Plain” from the film My Fair Lady shows — even when you’re paying attention to your vowels, articulation is basically the Read More