Our voice coaches have a highly practical and effective approach to accent training. You will easily absorb all the detail you need to gain control of your your accent, with the minimum of theory and the maximum of practice. Their accurate analysis and highly skilled corrections will let you first hear, then change, and then easily adopt the tiny differences that will transform how you how speak English.

And to save you from needing months of training with us, we empower you to be your own accent coach - to understand all the changes you need to make, so that you can apply them consistently to your speech, self-correcting, until you have easily made permanent improvements to your pronunciation.

We work on your:

1. Muscles: Every language/accent has a special facial posture and range of movement. Our specially developed speech muscle training exercises, help you to remove the tensions from your original way of speech, and develop any muscles that may not be strong enough, until you can easily make the movements necessary for your chosen accent.


2. Stress and Intonation: English has a very precise system of rhythm - using stress (loudness) and tune (higher notes) to draw attention to important words, whilst weakening those that are less important. Our training programme will put you in control of this system of stress and intonation - and the effects will be magical. You will instantly be clearer and more impactful. And if you need to do some public speaking in English - the stress system gives you the perfect tools for maximum clarity and effectiveness.


3. Detail - Vowels and Consonants: The above two subjects really help you make very rapid progress. But an accent is also made up of lots of detail - in English there are 20 vowel sounds (and these can vary in different positions) and 24 consonant sounds. Some or all of these may vary from your original language/accent.
   
   We will help you to understand which of these sounds cause you the most difficulty, so you can prioritise your practice. We give you a targeted programme, starting with the hardest/most confusing sounds that will make the biggest difference to your accent. Then, if you want to go all the way, we can work with you right through to the final, delicate refinements that make your accent completely disappear.

You will easily learn:

1. The Phonetic Alphabet - the symbols that represent the 20 vowel sounds and 24 consonant sounds of RP English. This allows you to overcome any habitual, incorrect responses to our spelling. (For example confusing walk and work).
   
   
2. Our Unique Vowel Star® Movement System for the Vowels. At Speak Easily we teach the 20 vowels in families of movements. This trains your muscles more effectively and makes the vowels much easier to remember.
   
   
3. The 4 Levels of Stress which make up the Stress, Emphasis and Intonation system. Again, our simple system allows rapid absorption and application of RP's complex rhythm and emphasis patterns.
   
   
4. The rules of spelling you can trust and the lists of 'exceptions' you have to memorise. Our materials are based on lists of the most common 500, 1000 and 7000 words in English. We familiarise you with the most common vocabulary and also the most unusual spellings.

The result of all this precise work in the hands of our skilled coaches? Clear, impactful, attractive, meaningful speech that gets your message across and presents you at your best.