Perfect Your English Accent

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Course Overview

ESP (ENGLISH FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES)

Description

Perfect Your English Accent Training offers a 24 hour accent program for everyone who speaks English as a second language. This course is a valuable, in-depth guide to pronouncing and speaking the general American variety of English for students, business people and ESL teachers. The innovative approach provides the highest quality instruction with exercises on all vowel sounds, consonants, diphthongs, and blends supplemented with nationality guides for 10 languages (Arabic, Indian, French, Spanish, German, Chinese, Japanese, Russian, Korean, US Southern accent).

Course Levels: 2 levels:

- Course 1: Perfect Your English Accent I ( Pre-Intermediate to Intermediate )
- Course 2: Perfect Your English Accent II ( Upper-Intermediate to Advanced )

Aims of the Course

• To master the American pronunciation and intonation through a wide variety of exercises and supplementary materials
• To imitate the fluid ways of American utterance
• To listen to the rhythms of spoken language by frequent in-class exposure to genuine American voices
• To be better understood by native speakers

The training will also provide discussion on the psychology of language acquisition, explain American voice quality and present essential pronunciation overviews. The course will commence with a preliminary diagnostic analysis to identify the strengths and weaknesses of American accent each participant has. The analysis is designed to assess students’ current speech patterns to let them know where their accent is standard and nonstandard. The final analysis to observe progress will be provided at the end of the training.

Course Outline – Perfect Your English Accent :

• The American sound, intonation and attitude
• General pronunciation, psycholinguistics
• Syllable Stress
• Complex intonation
• Phrasing
• Reduced Sounds
• Word Connections
• The American “T”
• The American “R”
• The “Ei”
• S versus Z
• Reduced sounds – continuation
• “V”
• Tense versus lax vowels
• Grammar
• Practical application
• Nasal Consonants
• Throaty Consonants
• Nationality guide
• Diagnostic analysis (exam)

Course Information

Course Type

Online

Price

Contact for Pricing

Duration

12 hours

Level

Pre-Intermediate to Advanced [B1-C1]

Contact

+974 33433354

Location

Qatar, Doha

Language

English

Provider

EduTec