Accent Modification and Enhancement

An accent is a wonderful attribute to your speech! It reflects who you are in the most meaningful way: the place that you spent your developing years. An accent always draws us to you- we want to know more about you! 

Sometimes, though, an accent may make your speech difficult for others to understand you. Do you ever think, That’s what I said, why didn’t they understand? It is so frustrating to be misunderstood! You may not fully understand what the problem is in your speech, you just know you want to be more successful at communicating effectively. Here at TalkKing, the aim is to keep the beauty of accented English, yet make it so those around you can easily understand you. They will better appreciate the lovely hills and valley of your speech if they can fully understand your words.

We begin with an individual evaluation to determine the specific speech and language issues that are affecting your communicative success. This in-depth process includes formal and informal testing measures, analysis, documentation and communication of results and recommendations. Specific attention is paid to finding patterns of errors with:

· Pronunciation of vowels and consonants

· Syllable stress and intonation patterns

· Rate of speech

· Ability to hear subtle differences in the sounds of American English

· Grammatical errors

· Vocabulary use

· Fixed expressions used commonly in English

We would also like to hear from you, what are your specific goals to enhancing your communication skills? What is your understanding of your communication difficulties? 

After the evaluation, we can begin training sessions that are individually tailored to you. Your needs, your speech, your personality. We can help you present your best self.includes what they do, how long they’ve been at it, and what got them to where they are.