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Achieve a more fulfilling life, better relationships, when you communicate fluently and clearly with an American accent!

FOR CHINESE SPEAKERS, AN AMERICAN ACCENT CAN ALLOW YOU TO BE UNDERSTOOD THE FIRST TIME-READ MORE

• Despite having excellent English language skills, many Chinese English speakers experience difficulty being understood.
• Their Chinese accent can challenge listeners- when giving presentations, participating in meetings and speaking over the phone.
• Globalization makes it imperative that Chinese speak confidently, with an internationally understandable English pronunciation.
• Learning how to speak English with the correct syllable stress, speech melody, rate of speech, linking sounds for smooth sentence flow, empowers you and your message. 
• Co-workers, supervisors, customers and patients will complement you for being more understandable
• A more fulfilling life, better relationships await you, when you communicate fluently and clearly with an American accent!

master American sounds that are missing in chinese speech-a priority for clear, understandable speech ​Click and learn how

• Otherwise, your speech will not be intelligible, to native English speakers.
• The most notoriously challenging sound not found in Chinese is the /th/ sound. 

• Our software and private lessons will show you how to effortlessly begin using these missing sounds in your everyday speech.

Have fun learning to speak with AN ENGLISH MELODY. sound like a native click to learn how

• English spoken with a Chinese accent involves a lot of leveling and smoothing of sounds. 
• The vocal cords of Chinese speakers,  vibrate in smooth singing tones. Rather than the little hop up and down of American speech melody. 
• The tongue, in a Chinese speaker, stays closer to the center of the mouth rather pronouncing, defined highs and lows that shape the L and R sounds.

Benefits of our american accent training: View now

• Allows people to clearly understand you.
• ​Pronounce Chinese words like an American, fluently and correctly.
• Speak clearly and confidently with an American pronunciation
• More focus on your skills and ideas and not on your accent
• Have easy and effortless conversations in English  
• Accurately pronounce the critically important vocabulary and terms needed for your education, career and occupation.
• Greater job security
• ​More career opportunities
• ​Higher social status

Li Yan Heil, Teacher
Little Rock, Arkansas

Ela was able to find my mistakes precisely and explain how to correctly pronounce English sounds clearly.

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I worked with Ela weekly for 10 sessions and highly recommend her. She is one of the most patient teachers I have met in my life.
I now have a new position as a High School Chinese teacher. Before working with Ela, even  pronouncing correctly English words one word at a time was a struggle.  My students needed me to explain the meanings  of Chinese words in English. They often could not comprehend my Chinese accented speech. Now my students can understand me quickly without asking me to clarify and repeat what I said. Sometimes, I also need to read long scripts when I proctor a standardized test which embarrassed me before. But now, I feel much more confident to do it. I know I am understood and pronouncing the text correctly. 

Knowing how Americans produce their spoken language allows me hear and understand them better, too.
I used the American Accent Software program often. It made learning and practicing easy and fun.  Several days before each class, she emailed me the lesson goals and the materials and reminded me to practice with the software.

During our one hour class via Skype, she would check and review how much I mastered the previous lesson and would teach several more new techniques. After class, I practiced the techniques with the software she provided which is easy to use and you can record yourself for comparison and get good feedback for learning how to improve.
Before I worked with her, I produced the /t/ sound the same way in all words, but with Ela’s help, I have learned the various ways Americans pronounce the /t/ sound in different words, like the /t/ in “better” vs. the /t/ in “important”.
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After, living 8 years in the United States, I never heard of the technique of vowel to vowel linking before I met Ela and never noticed it.  I now successfully use this technique. So now the sounds of my words, phrases and sentences flow smoothly."

​"I am an actual client."
"While I was looking for the classes to improve my accent, I found Ela’s Accent Modification Course. Over the course, Ela taught me how to pronounce the words correctly and helped me to modify my accent.  It was a really great experience for me. I can see the changes in my accent and it helps me to consult with my clients better. I highly recommend Ela for your accent modification needs. She will help you to reach your goals." 

 - Ji Yu, Accountant, Las Vegas, Nevada​

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" I understand and care about that, when your first language is as fundamentally phonetically different from English as Mandarin or Cantonese, it's almost impossible initially not to be discouraged by having have an accent that makes it difficult for you to be understood by Americans. It's rewarding for me to help you identify your pronunciation differences and teach you easy, effective speech improvement strategies"
-Ela Britchkow, Speech Therapist​

Chinese art and architecture expresses a remarkable, natural, rhythmic harmony, as seen in the buildings pictured above. Similiarly, the Chinese accent, which involves a lot of tonal leveling and smoothing of sounds, is more rhythmic and harmonious than English. We will show you how to pronounce words like an American speaker.

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• Chinese grammar​
• American idioms
• How to link words like an American speaker​

• Chinese grammar differs from American English because there are no specific gender pronouns (e.g., he, she, his and her). Chinese speakers often default to the masculine versions, which can lead to awkwardness when they refer to women using he or his. In Chinese, there aren't separate singular and plural forms for nouns. In Chinese, there is no such thing as verb conjugation to denote tenses.There are no articles in Chinese. Students frequently omit articles such as "a, an, the", insert them where they're not needed  or confuse definite and indefinite articles.  Our program will show you how to speak with correct English grammar so you will succeed at your job and in your personal life.    
• Americans use expressions and idioms constantly!   You may find that you often don’t understand what people are really talking about because they use so many idiomatic expressions. We will teach you the most commonly used idiomatic expressions.

• ​Americans link words together unless it is an appropriate time to pause.  Chinese speakers naturally tend to separate their words because  Chinese words start with a consonant and end either with a vowel or or a nasalized consonant, n or ng. This causes their speaking in English to not flow smoothly. We will teach you link words like an American so  that your speech will flow naturally.

REthink learning how to speak clear, fluent English with our revolutionary self-help software

Best method to learn American pronunciation.

Accent reduction software delivers, for all language backgrounds, 15 hours of engaging, interactive, well organized lessons teaching:
How to correctly pronounce all the sounds, rhythm, intonation, pitch of the English language and much more!

1. Offers a record and play feature for valuable immediate feedback
2. Practice anywhere in the world 24/7 ​
3. Virtually makes you feel that you are receiving private instruction
4. Progress at your own pace ​

Originally created by Ela Britchkow, Speech Language Pathologist, for her Slavic clients. The full program is ideal for all nationalities and languages. If your language, for example, Chinese, requires additional sounds, we will provide them as audio recordings for free at no additional charge.

​Please note: Our software is programmed for Windows Computers. ​Solutions ​for MAC users.

For more information about American accent software

One Hour, 1-On-1 American Accent  Skype Session

Receive a free video recording of the teaching session you had with Ela.

​You can then practice what you were taught, using the recorded session. Ela will also tell you which software lesson to work on.

Your private one-on-one training includes a target-specific evaluation aimed at eliminating your individual speech issues.

​Provided by Ela Britchkow, speech language pathologist, certified Compton P-ESL, accent reduction specialist, with over 20+years experience.

​Ela offers, for all language backgrounds, effective, step by step, customized lessons for mastering English pronunciation. Learn the best accent reduction techniques for vowels, consonants, rhythm, stress, intonation and much more. ​

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