The Center for Confident American English Communication

When Americans talk they stress the CONTENT and FOCUS words in a sentence. That’s because these words are the most important for sentence meaning. English speakers will reduce the function words in a sentence because these words are not key to meaning. In spoken American English each sentence or phrase contains: A Focus word-the most

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Cincinnati Children’s Hospital has developed an on site accent reduction program. That way employees don’t have to go off-campus or pay expensive tuition at local universities or private schools for such training. Participation is voluntary, however participants must pay about $2,300 to cover materials, software and equipment.  The most common issue for participants is that they’re imposing

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International professionals benefit from classes that focus on spoken English. That’s why accent reduction specialists in Canada are working with immigrant professionals. The are teaching pronunciation skills and accent reduction techniques that will improve communication, reduce misunderstandings and help them get jobs and promotions. According to one teacher- “The people in our program have very

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