ACCENTS:
Accent and dialect work is about so much more than pronunication – how we speak is influenced by how we think, where we come from, how we feel about ourselves. Serving the character’s needs and telling the story is always the ultimate goal of my accent coaching. Having to learn a new accent can be daunting, but I will help you to break down the process: to feel the new shapes in the mouth, the rhythms in the body and the music of the sounds and to come away with confidence and dependable strategies for inhabiting your new accent.
My speciality is in teaching German accents and language, as well as teaching RP to North Americans.
These are the accents I already in my library, and it is constantly expanding. I am always availabile to teach other accents not on this list:
UK & IRELAND: Standard RP, Heightened RP, Liverpool, Yorkshire, Cockney, Essex, MLE, Scottish – Edinburgh, Northern Irish – Belfast, Irish – Dublin & Cork
THE WORLD: General American, American – New York, German, Swedish, Finnish, Israeli, Jamaican, Persian, Russian
ACCENT SOFTENING:
I love the richness of the myriad of different accents and I would never encourage anyone to change their accent. However, it is important to realise we all have choices about our voices and our accents, and they are constantly in a state of flow (do we use the same voice and accent with our parents as with our friends?). If there are times when you feel your accent may be getting in the way of important communication, then we can work together. Whether it be looking to improve your clarity, either by working on your articulation, or looking at modifying certain sounds, these are all aspects with which I can help. We will sit down and analyse your voice and accent and work out a bespoke plan for making the most our time together. By the end of our sessions you will have become aware of key sounds which can be shifted in order to effect better communication.