The Center for Confident American English Communication

I often find that the strategies that I teach my accent reduction coaching clients are the same strategies that are used in public speaking. For both accent reduction and effective public speaking you need to: Warm up your voice ✔ Prepare your material with marks for emphasis, pauses & stops (breathing) ✔ Rehearse what you

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John Lau, DTM, of Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia, is currently serving as the President of Toastmasters’ International (2012-2013). A leader in both business and politics, John is the chief executive and owner of a management consultancy called the Acme Group and a Sarawak State Chairman of the People’s Progressive Party of Malaysia. Listen to the interview below in which

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Many of my accent reduction clients tell me that they want to sound “natural” when they talk in a meeting or give presentations. I always tell them that the best “natural speakers” always prepare and practice. We just don’t see that part. Following this theme….the executive communication coach, Carmine Gallo just published an excellent article in Forbes

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