American Accent Training for East Asian Professionals
What you'll learn
- Participants will learn how to pronounce sounds and sound sequences of American English
- Participants will be able to use American English intonation
- Participants will be able to use American English pronunciation in their conversations more automatically
Requirements
- Advanced English skills
Description
This course trains East-Asian professionals how to speak with more of an American English accent. It includes video lectures and practice sheets for each section. Background languages targeted are: Chinese (Mandarin/Cantonese), Korean, Tagalog, Vietnamese, and Japanese.
In American Accent Training, feedback is very important. This course features videos of feedback sessions with Mandarin (Chinese) speakers. Participants are offered feedback individually as well; once a week, you can send in a voice recording and you will receive feedback.
Who this course is for:
- East-Asian Professionals desiring to speak with more of an American Accent
Instructor
- 4.7 Instructor Rating
- 58 Reviews
- 353 Students
- 1 Course
Emily Sadeghi received a bachelor's degree in English from UC Irvine, where she also studied linguistics. She then earned a master's in teaching at UC Irvine. After her first master's degree, she discovered her passion for speech and language therapy, especially accent reduction, and earned a second master's degree in Speech and Language Pathology (Communication Disorders).
Emily has taught English to hundreds of English learners, and has used this experience in her speech therapy. She is passionate about empowering people by improving their communication. Emily has extensively researched the speech sound and language systems of Farsi, Mandarin, Korean, Hindi, and Spanish and several other languages to enhance her effectiveness as a speech therapist.