{"id":506,"date":"2006-11-27T03:01:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-27T03:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/?p=506"},"modified":"2015-05-19T11:05:20","modified_gmt":"2015-05-19T15:05:20","slug":"accent-reduction-top-10-tips-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/accent-reduction-top-10-tips-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Accent Reduction – Top 10 Tips"},"content":{"rendered":"

1<\/span><\/b><\/span> \u2013 Imitate<\/span> the desired accent and expressions of the people around you e.g. co-workers, T.V. and film characters, teachers, etc. <\/span><\/p>\n

2<\/span><\/b><\/span> \u2013 Record<\/span> yourself and check your progress continuously.<\/span><\/p>\n

3<\/span><\/b><\/span> \u2013 Memorize<\/span> useful North American slang, current idioms and expressions, etc. and integrate it whenever possible. <\/span><\/p>\n

4<\/span><\/b><\/span> \u2013 Buy<\/span> a pronunciation book. Check for CDs in the back and whether they are British or American English.<\/span><\/p>\n

5<\/span><\/b><\/span> \u2013 Use<\/span> a mirror to observe your lips, tongue and teeth positions.<\/span><\/p>\n

6<\/span><\/b><\/span> \u2013 Control<\/span> your volume, and stress key content words to keep listeners focused.<\/span><\/p>\n

7<\/span><\/b><\/span> \u2013 Control<\/span> your rhythm and pace. It is not a race!<\/span><\/p>\n

8<\/span><\/b><\/span> \u2013 Practice<\/span> with tongue-twisters, alliteration and poetry.<\/span><\/p>\n

9<\/span><\/b><\/span> \u2013 Keep<\/span> a list of trouble spots (words, sounds) to practice morning and night in a logbook or diary.<\/span><\/p>\n

10<\/span><\/b><\/span> \u2013 When<\/span> in doubt of the correct pronunciation, use a good dictionary to check the phonetic instructions of sounds and syllable stress.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1 \u2013 Imitate the desired accent and expressions of the people around you e.g. co-workers, T.V. and film characters, teachers, etc. 2 \u2013 Record yourself and check your progress continuously. 3 \u2013 Memorize useful North American slang, current idioms and expressions, etc. and integrate it whenever possible. 4 \u2013 Buy a pronunciation book. Check for […]<\/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":[541,754,753,618,761,712],"class_list":["post-506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-cultural-communications","category-speak-english-better","tag-accents","tag-american-english","tag-british-english","tag-pronunciation","tag-recommended-resources","tag-speaking-strategies"],"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\/506","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=506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":579,"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions\/579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}