Will your program boost my confidence?
Question: I speak in English at work, but it is not my first language. I feel uncertain about how I sound and which words to say. Will your program boost my confidence? Answer: In short, YES! Many of my clients have told me that one of the biggest benefits they...
Why can’t I speak English proficiently?
Question: Why can't I speak proficiently? I've been an English language learner for a long time. Isn't it enough to know the word meanings, grammar and sentence structures of English to speak it well? Answer: Knowing a language and speaking it proficiently are...
Individualized coaching versus DIY approach
Question: How is SpeechTraining4ESL's program different from watching a YouTube video or reading a book? Does personalized coaching in effective English communication result in different outcomes from a DIY approach? Answer: A DIY approach to most anything seems to be...
Inclusion At Work
Question: I am an immigrant and came to the US as an adult to seek higher education and employment. How will this program help me feel more included with my colleagues at my job? Answer: As an immigrant to this country, you are most likely well aware of...
Speech Rate: Put on the brakes
Talking Tip #15: Controlling the rate at which you speak will have a positive impact on your communication. Speech Rate In this last post, I want to talk a bit about speech rate- how quickly we talk. Many of us are fast talkers, and we are guilty of running...
Project: Don’t yell
Talking Tip #14: Projecting your voice the right way will make your message clear and understandable. What do we do if we want to speak louder? How do we make ourselves heard in a noisy restaurant or through a mask? Do we yell? Do we force our speech? ...
Syllables: the core components
Talking Tip #13: Knowing about syllables and the phonemes of a language can help with speech clarity. This post addresses a few of the core components of our speech and language syllables and phomemes. When we talk, what exactly are we saying? Do we...
Stress: Not stressed out in messages
Talking Tip #12: Make sure to stress the important word in your message. We’ve already talked about stress in words making sure we stress the correct syllable in long words so that others understand us. But did you know that stressing the correct word...
Stress: Not stressed out in words
Talking Tip #11: Saying words with the correct emphasis or stressed syllable makes a huge impact on how well you are understood. Stress Stress can mean a few different things. It’s something we feel. It’s something we experience. It’s also an aspect...
Pitch: It’s all over the place for questions
Talking tip #10: Pitch in questions can rise or fall at the end of our message depending on the type of question we ask. In our last post, we talked about pitch in our statements, that our pitch starts low, rises up and down, goes to its highest level on the...