{"id":253,"date":"2008-03-22T16:42:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-22T16:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/?p=253"},"modified":"2015-05-02T10:22:50","modified_gmt":"2015-05-02T14:22:50","slug":"accent-reduction-top-10-tips-contd-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/accent-reduction-top-10-tips-contd-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Accent Reduction Top 10 Tips &#8211; Cont&#8217;d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;\">3 \u2013<\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;\"><strong> Memorize<\/strong> useful North American or British slang, depending on where you are, and <u>current<\/u> idioms and expressions, etc. to integrate them whenever possible. If you are not sure if an idiom or expression is appropriate, ask a teacher, tutor or coach, or a trusted native English speaking friend. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;\">4 \u2013<\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;\"><strong> Buy<\/strong> a pronunciation book. Check for CDs in the back and whether they are British or American English. Adapt to your environment as best as you can with your accent.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;\">5 \u2013<\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;\"><strong> Use<\/strong> a mirror to observe your lips, tongue and teeth positions, and observe others for correct positioning. Practice in the mirror every day. A good time is right after you are finished brushing your teeth.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>3 \u2013 Memorize useful North American or British slang, depending on where you are, and current idioms and expressions, etc. to integrate them whenever possible. If you are not sure if an idiom or expression is appropriate, ask a teacher, tutor or coach, or a trusted native English speaking friend. 4 \u2013 Buy a pronunciation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[535,537],"tags":[617,618],"class_list":["post-253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-cultural-communications","category-speak-english-better","tag-accent-reduction","tag-pronunciation"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1128,"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions\/1128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}