tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66484243249701936732024-03-05T03:26:36.851-05:00Accent Reduction Miami ®<p><b>Helping You Speak With Precision, Elegance and Influence... Classes, Coaching and Networking</b></p>Lisa Jeffery Speech And Accent Academyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02899581406831437754noreply@blogger.comBlogger29125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6648424324970193673.post-6295332230739339332016-03-23T17:17:00.003-04:002016-04-07T04:44:56.585-04:00Put Me The Light! (The funny language of Miami)<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:OfficeDocumentSettings> <o:PixelsPerInch>72</o:PixelsPerInch> <o:TargetScreenSize>544x376</o:TargetScreenSize> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings> </xml><![endif]--><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: large;">In Miami, you often hear very strange English.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here are some examples:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: large;">“Put me the light” instead of “Turn on the light” (This comes from the literal Spanish translation of “Ponme la luz”.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: large;">“I’m going to get down from the car” instead of “I’m going to get out of the car” (This comes from the literal Spanish translation of ‘me voy a bajar del carro.’)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: large;">“Martha recommended me this movie” Instead of “Martha recommended this movie to me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(The Spanish literal translation:“Martha me recomendó esta película.”)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: large;">“He invited me to a beer” instead of “He treated or offered me a beer” (Spanish literal translation - “Me invitó a tomar una cerveza.”.)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: large;"> All of these are called Calques.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: large;">A multilingual city like Miami is rich with ‘Spanglish’. We’ve all heard of Spanglish, but who has heard of calques?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A calque is a<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>word-for-word translation from one language to another (that is not always correct.) When you take a phrase in Spanish or any other language and translate each word literally into English, that's a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">calque</i>. </span></span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: large;">This phenomenon is common in Miami. The population in Miami is predominantly Spanish speaking with backgrounds from countries such as Cuba, Venezuela, Colombia, Nicaragua, Argentina, Puerto Rico, and more. Miami is different from other places in the U.S. that are Spanish speaking communities. Miami is changing the way we speak English instead of the other way around. Calques in Miami may be so subtle that Miami-born residents are unaware of these patterns. This also happens in translation from other languages. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: large;">Can you think of other examples? This is one of the many reasons an English native speaker raised and born in Miami may be asked at one time or another when traveling outside of Miami: “Where are you from? You have a slight accent.” </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">Luis Reyes is an Accent Reduction and Executive Speech Coach in Spanish and English, and Office Manager of the Speech and Accent Academy. </span></span></h2>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">He has a Masters degree in Foreign Language Education (TESOL) and a Bachelors degree in International Relations with a minor in Political Geography from Florida International University. He has taught English as a second language in three countries: Italy, Spain, and and the US (Seattle and Miami). Luis teaches classes and coaches privately in English and Spanish to help people speak clean, neutral accents in both languages. He helps clients speak elegantly and feel more confident about the way they speak and express themselves. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"> “We don’t reduce accents, but rather, we teach you a new accent at the Speech and Accent Academy.”</span></i></span></h3>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">How to Say Classy Consonants</span></h2>
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<i>by Alicia Harris</i><br />Accent Reduction Miami<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">®</span> Coach and Teacher</h3>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Are your English consonants crunchy, cloudy and confused? <br />Do you want them to sound clean, classy and clear? <br /><br />Well, clients at Accent Reduction Miami</span><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">®</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">
and the Speech and Accent Academy always ask why their consonants don't sound right during our free meetups and our weekly classes. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The first
secret in clear, crisp speech is to pronounce all your consonants at the end of words in English, and say your words more
completely -- finish them! <br /><br />In Miami, where the Spanish accent is one of the most prevalent accents, consonants are chopped off at the end of words. For example, at
Publix, the supermarket in Miami, the famous phrase “Are you next in line?” is reduced to “Are you NEK-EE-LIE?” "Yes, I'm nek-ee-lie!"<br /><br />Where did those final consonants go? They were chopped off. They disappeared. They were left in the cart, next to the ice-cree. <br /><br /><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>When we don't say the final consonants, which is characteristic of good English, our listeners will miss important information -- like plurals, past tense, and other important details. And the words just don't sound right.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Try saying the phrase “next in Line” in the mirror. Notice how the shape of
your mouth changes like a gymnast moving over the uneven bars. These are the consonant gymnastics of English.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">WORKOUT: Here are some more 'consonant gymnastics' to practice in the mirror. These words are full of consonants:</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Two cups of coffee<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>please</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Finish your breakfast. <span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Dream Big. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Teamwork makes the dreamwork. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Keep Your New Year’s resolutions<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span></li>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Practice in front of a mirror and next time we will give more
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Many people come to me after they have have attended some kind of accent reduction program, and it didn't work. Why? Because it's a personal thing. You can't learn from a class or CDs alone, unless you are particularly gifted. You need a good coach or teacher to help you to know what to do and to help you change habits. And this is the magic. The coach guides you, and you take on the training as if it's a workout, and workouts are personal. I believe the new sounds are like learning new dance moves. You may not get it the first time, but keep trying and you will certainly change the way you speak.<br />
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My actors, NBC and ABC broadcasters making the cross over from Spanish must speak with a <i><b>perfect</b></i> broadcast quality English. But not everyone has to be that perfect. My CEO clients, authors, financial adviser clients don't have to be perfect, but they do have to reduce the distractions of their accent so that they can speak with precision, elegance, influence in order to persuade people. It IS possible to change the way they speak English. And this is true for people whose native language is English... but they mumble, or do not articulate well.<br />
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I don't come from a speech therapist background, I come
from a television and radio broadcasting, public speaking and training background. I taught
voice and articulation and broadcasting at a university for many years,
along with public speaking and communication skills. It took me many years to find a sparkly "movie star" like coach to work with me. But I found her one day when I met Alica Harris, and trained her in my unique techniques.<br />
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I had been consulting, coaching, and teaching university classes in Miami since 1998. But I launched the Speech and Accent Academy in 2002 in Miami. I launched Accent Reduction Miami®
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in 2008. Accent Reduction Miami® is a philosophy, a trademark, a brand, of which I am very proud. I created classes, and a free meetup group to connect people to meet and speak English together. At our meetups, we have fun, go to concerts, museums, restaurants, have salsa lessons! I give a free lesson at our meetups and I connect people with other people to practice English together. <br />
Why? Because when I was in Paris, and spoke French with a horrible American Accent, I had nobody to practice with who would not make fun of me. I wanted friends whose accent was a bad as mine in French, but could practice with me. I had gotten a scholarship from the Rotary Foundation -- $20,000.00 if I could make six speeches in French in 1994. I had to change my accent. I hired a French Accent Reduction Coach and began my journey that changed the course of my life.<br />
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Beginning about 2004, cuts and strict restrictions in medicare and medicaid began effecting the profits of the Speech Pathologists industry. So they had to diversify to survive, and looked towards "Accent Reduction" as a new business model -- something that dialect coaches for actors have been doing all along. Hundreds of Speech Pathologists contacted me to ask if I could train them how to move into the area of Accent Reduction. They wanted to know what I was doing and how I was doing it. I was asked to go to Dallas, San Francisco and New York. I decided not to go into the 'train the trainer' business, but keep working with my clients.<br />
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Accent Reduction Miami continues with classes, and our meetup group will always be free. Our classes will always be small groups, and our coaching -- state of the art.<br />
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Reduction Miami® Birthday Party at Aventura Dance Studio </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Saturday, June 22, 4-8 p.m.<br /><br />Free Accent Reduction Lesson from Speech Coaches Lisa Jeffery and Alicia Harris</span><br />
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www.lisajeffery.com</div>Lisa Jeffery Speech And Accent Academyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02899581406831437754noreply@blogger.com0Miami, FL, USA25.7889689 -80.22643929999998125.5602014 -80.549162799999976 26.0177364 -79.903715799999986tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6648424324970193673.post-22722986446170980712013-01-22T10:48:00.000-05:002013-01-22T11:14:18.791-05:00'One Today' America's First Inaugural Latino Poet Pays Homage to the American Experience<h5 class="uiStreamMessage userContentWrapper" data-ft="{"type":1,"tn":"K"}">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="messageBody" data-ft="{"type":3}"><span class="userContent">I
was stopped in my tracks yesterday<span style="font-size: small;"> when </span>I heard the words of the
Inaugural Poet, Richard Blanco, the first Latino Inaugural poet in
history. So proud that we include poetry in our presidential
inauguration and this one is a FINE one! The last line gripped me: "and
every window, of one country—all of us—facing the stars hope—a new
constellation waiting for us to map it, waiting for us to name
it—together." Here's the entire poem. <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/today-richard-blanco-poem-read-barack-obama-inauguration/story?id=18274653" target="_blank">See More.</a></span></span></span></h5>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">One sun rose on us today, kindled
over our shores,<br />
peeking over the Smokies, greeting the faces<br />
of the Great Lakes, spreading a simple truth<br />
across the Great Plains, then charging across the Rockies.</span></span></div>
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told by our silent gestures moving behind windows. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">My face, your face, millions of
faces in morning's mirrors,<br />
each one yawning to life, crescendoing into our day:<br />
pencil-yellow school buses, the rhythm of traffic lights,<br />
fruit stands: apples, limes, and oranges arrayed like rainbows<br />
begging our praise. Silver trucks heavy with oil or paper—<br />
bricks or milk, teeming over highways alongside us,<br />
on our way to clean tables, read ledgers, or save lives—<br />
to teach geometry, or ring-up groceries as my mother did<br />
for twenty years, so I could write this poem. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">All of us as vital as the one light
we move through,<br />
the same light on blackboards with lessons for the day:<br />
equations to solve, history to question, or atoms imagined,<br />
the "I have a dream" we keep dreaming,<br />
or the impossible vocabulary of sorrow that won't explain<br />
the empty desks of twenty children marked absent<br />
today, and forever. Many prayers, but one light<br />
breathing color into stained glass windows,<br />
life into the faces of bronze statues, warmth<br />
onto the steps of our museums and park benches <br />
as mothers watch children slide into the day. </span></span></div>
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One ground. Our ground, rooting us to every stalk<br />
of corn, every head of wheat sown by sweat<br />
and hands, hands gleaning coal or planting windmills<br />
in deserts and hilltops that keep us warm, hands<br />
digging trenches, routing pipes and cables, hands<br />
as worn as my father's cutting sugarcane<br />
so my brother and I could have books and shoes.
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The dust of farms and deserts, cities and plains<br />
mingled by one wind—our breath. Breathe. Hear it<br />
through the day's gorgeous din of honking cabs,<br />
buses launching down avenues, the symphony<br />
of footsteps, guitars, and screeching subways,<br />
the unexpected song bird on your clothes line.
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Hear: squeaky playground swings, trains whistling,<br />
or whispers across café tables, Hear: the doors we open<br />
for each other all day, saying: hello, shalom,<br />
buon giorno, howdy, namaste, or buenos días<br />
in the language my mother taught me—in every language<br />
spoken into one wind carrying our lives<br />
without prejudice, as these words break from my lips.
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One sky: since the Appalachians and Sierras claimed<br />
their majesty, and the Mississippi and Colorado worked<br />
their way to the sea. Thank the work of our hands:<br />
weaving steel into bridges, finishing one more report<br />
for the boss on time, stitching another wound<br />
or uniform, the first brush stroke on a portrait,<br />
or the last floor on the Freedom Tower<br />
jutting into a sky that yields to our resilience.
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One sky, toward which we sometimes lift our eyes<br />
tired from work: some days guessing at the weather<br />
of our lives, some days giving thanks for a love<br />
that loves you back, sometimes praising a mother<br />
who knew how to give, or forgiving a father<br />
who couldn't give what you wanted.
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We head home: through the gloss of rain or weight<br />
of snow, or the plum blush of dusk, but always—home,<br />
always under one sky, our sky. And always one moon<br />
like a silent drum tapping on every rooftop<br />
and every window, of one country—all of us—<br />
facing the stars<br />
hope—a new constellation<br />
waiting for us to map it,<br />
waiting for us to name it—together.<br />
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I've often found that the primary reason people reduce their accents is
to increase their credibility. This study confirms that Americans view
people with accents as less credible. What do you think?
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Do you have stories about being viewed as less
credible because your accent? I do, in France, people thought I was
stupid when I spoke French, and I'm a very educated woman. So I worked
with a speech coach to lose my American accent for speeches I had to
make in French. I couldn't believe the difference in how people treated
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Here's an article about a study done in Chicago that was published in the <i><a href="http://www.sesp.org/">Journal of Experimental Social Psychology</a> and USA TODAY.</i></div>
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For the <a href="http://www.census.gov/prod/2010pubs/acs-12.pdf">24.5 million </a>Americans
who told the Census Bureau in 2007 that they spoke English less than
"very well," it may not be their imagination that people don't take what
they say quite as seriously as they do native English speakers.
Researchers in Chicago have shown that people with a <a href="http://accent.gmu.edu/">noticeable accent</a> are considered less credible than those with no accent.<br />
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The stronger the accent, the less credible the speaker.<br />
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The
researchers asked Americans to listen to native and non-native speakers
of English making simple statements such as <span style="color: red;"><b>"A giraffe can go without
water longer than a camel can,"</b></span> and then judge how truthful they were. To
guard against simple prejudice, the listeners were told the information
came from a prepared script and wasn't based on the speaker's own
knowledge. <span style="color: red;">Even so, on a scale where 10 was most truthful, native
English speakers got a score of 7.5, people with mild accents a score of
6.95 and people with heavy accents a score of 6.84.</span> The paper is in the current issue of the<i><a href="http://www.sesp.org/"> Journal of Experimental Social Psychology</a>.</i><br />
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<i>"</i>The accent makes it harder for people to understand what the non-native speaker is saying," <a href="http://psychology.uchicago.edu/people/faculty/bkeysar.shtml">Boaz Keysar,</a>
a professor of psychology at the University of Chicago and lead author
on the paper, said in a statement.<br />
"They misattribute the difficulty of
understanding the speech to the truthfulness of the statements."<br />
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While
research has clearly shown accent affects how a person is perceived, how
much having an accent affected a person's credibility hadn't been
known, he said. Even when the participants were told that the test
was to determine whether accents influence how truthful people sound,
the effect didn't go away. In that case, speakers with mild accents were
considered as truthful as native speakers but those with heavy accents
were judged less truthful.<br />
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<i>If I say that with a heavy accent do you still believe me?</i><br />
<b><span style="color: black; font-family: lucida grande;">--Lisa</span></b><br />
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This month, we had our Christmas party in North Miami featuring a special guest speaker, syndicated radio talk show host and author <a href="http://albertosardinas.com/en/" target="_blank">Alberto Sardinas</a>. He spoke about his heartwarming radio show, his new book, and how he reduced is accent for radio working with his coach, me! Alberto, as a radio broadcaster, needed to have that clear, articulate English that radio announcers need. He was able to correct the typical 'Spanish speaker' habits, and dazzled us all with his voice. His stories from his new book <a href="http://albertosardinas.com/en/virtual-store/" target="_blank">"The Power of Your Story"</a> touched our hearts, and were so moving that I had tears in my eyes a few times. His book not only inspires you with his stories, but each story has a "Takeaway" lesson, and a worksheet to help you find the power of YOUR story. I think his book is changing my life, and I'm so proud of him in the progress he has made in articulating like a native speaker in English! <br />
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</em>Strong accents, my Latino clients say, often hold them back from promotions, affect their confidence and credibility. Half the problem, I say, is not only their accents, but their audience's <em>ears</em>. Outside of Miami, (where it's much easier to speak with an accent and be understood) people are not accustomed to accents, and they are not good at understanding. They are often impatient, judgmental and worse... rude.<br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">It's true that the majority of Americans are mono-lingual: they speak and know only one language. They simply have a hard time understanding sounds that vary from the standard American English. To them, an accent sounds retarded, mangled, <em>dumb.</em> And this is sad. They don't know what it's like to communicate in a second language. And they are impatient.</div><br />
It's also true that only three out of 100 Americans articulate properly. For this reason, people who speak English as a second language often pick up the sloppiest, dirtiest and <em>nastiest</em> speech habits from Americans who speak poorly around them. Mixed with an accent, it sounds like dirty 'street-talk' speech, the worst of the worst of American English.<br />
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I always say that we <em>forgive</em> Americans when they say 'gunna', 'wanna' and 'I'm-unna' because we don't notice it that much, it doesn't stand out. But when someone with an accent says this garbage, it stands out like a sore thumb! We hear how stupid it sounds - often for the first time. Americans do not <em><strong>forgive</strong></em> people with accents when they speak like this. Instead, most mono-lingual Americans judge them, sadly, as being <em>stupid, inferior, sub-human!</em><br />
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<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">I have heard hundreds of frustrating stories from my clients about rude (and mean) comments they have received about their accents or their race. Some of these stories are heartbreaking. Usually they come in the form of an interruption while my client was saying something important, and it's something like: "You're not from this country, <em>are you</em>?" This is nothing more than a power play, I say, a 'one-up-manship', something to put you down because of your race or language limitation. I say ignore it! Stick to with what you were saying... elegantly.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">This is the reason I say, if you speak with an accent, you must speak <em>better</em> than Americans, you must articulate clearly and crisply, intelligently and confidently. You must sound <em>smart</em>.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">This is easy with the right direction, guidance, encouragement and discipline, until it becomes a habit. Fortunately, you CAN change the way you speak. <strong><u>Accent Reduction is not the right term at all.</u></strong> Actually, it is learning a <em>NEW</em> accent, and practicing that accent until it becomes a habit. Your brain needs to get used to the new speech patterns and it can. My favorite saying is <em>"Try on your new accent, and WEAR it!"</em></div><br />
Many of my clients have attended classes, listened to CDs, bought books and videos. Then they come to me, totally discouraged. Some have developed bad habits like talking fast thinking that no one notices the accent! We have to fix all that. So we begin.<br />
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I don't care what anyone says, I say you can change your accent and your way of speaking <u><strong>in eight weeks</strong></u>. My clients can all vouch for that. Eight weeks. Sixteen hours. Something happens in the third week: they begin to feel frustrated because they are now catching all their mistakes. I say, "<em>CELEBRATE</em> that feeling of frustration because it shows that you are making progress, and for the first time, your brain is recognizing your speech patterns. It wants to change! Then, they begin to correct themselves the instant they hear their mistakes, and one by one each mistake disappears.<br />
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<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Changing the way you speak is the easiest and most effective investment you can make. Speaking with precision in English (or any language) brings you influence, elegance and confidence. It helps you overcome barriers. The barriers especially that Latinos face are not understood by native English Speaking Americans. To overcome these barriers, you just simply need to jump over some hurdles, and the greatest hurdle is your accent. </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Here's a great article in Diversity Executive Magazine: Overcoming Barriers for Corporate Latinos: <a href="http://diversity-executive.com/article.php?article=1214">http://diversity-executive.com/article.php?article=1214</a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><em>Lisa Jeffery, Executive Coach and CEO of Jeffery Communications </em><a href="http://www.speechandaccentacademy.com/"><em>Speech and Accent Academy</em></a><em> and organizer of </em><a href="http://www.meetup.com/accentreductionmiami"><em>Accent Reduction Miami</em></a><em>, understands what it's like to communicate well in a second language. Having received Rotary International <a href="http://www.scholars4dev.com/3902/rotary-international-ambassadorial-scholarships/">Ambassadorial scholarships</a> for Masters Degrees in Paris and<a href="http://www.monaco.edu/international-university-monaco.cfm"> Monaco</a>, in exchange for Public Speaking in French, her speech coach told her, "You can not mimic your Parisian friends. Because you are a foreigner, you must speak articulate, elegant French because you have an accent." She understands what it's like to be taken seriously in a second language. She coaches in public speaking, persuasion and building confidence as a part of her accent reduction programs.</em></span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_9yLU1tjBOXKcViwjQsPV1wgxDIxjNNfF_SdBcwjBZxSTuo1zH_sZWNKVG_lZol3guEKLrAtIt7-Rqpfrkfhrwva1dza-0K0dovB7u4LCzH5UgSDaHnWLOPUUd4-89BQrrrcBoVlpqQ/s1600/diversity+executive+magazine.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><em></em></a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Accent Reduction Miami is a blog by Lisa Jeffery, MBA, MA
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<em>What is the correct sound?</em><br />
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Many people make the mistake of not saying the word "the" correctly. The word "the" has two sounds: thee and thuh. When it comes before a consonant, we pronounce "the" with a short sound (like "thuh"). <br />
But when "the" comes before a vowel sound, we pronounce it as a long "thee".<br />
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It is important to understand that it is what we say that matters, not what we write. It is the sound of speech that want to make sure is right, not the letter used in writing a word. So we use a long "thee" before a vowel sound, not necessarily before a vowel. Here are some examples:<br />
vowel sound: A<br />
writing: the apple<br />
speaking: thee apple<br />
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vowel sound: E<br />
writing: the egg<br />
speaking: thee egg<br />
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vowel sound: I<br />
writing: the ice-cream <br />
speaking: thee ice-cream<br />
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the house consonant (h) thuh house (consonant sound)<br />
the hour consonant (h) thee our (vowel sound)<br />
the university vowel (u) thuh youniversity (consonant sound)<br />
the umbrella vowel (u) thee umbrella (vowel sound)<br />
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<strong>The Weird Letter U:</strong><br />
Note that the vowel U sometimes sounds like a consonant with a YOU sound, and sometimes sounds like a vowel with a "uh" sound.<br />
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<strong><u>Emphatic the [thee]</u></strong><br />
When we wish to place emphasis on a particular word, we can use "emphatic the" [thee], whether or not the word begins with a consonant or vowel sound. For example:<br />
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A: I saw the [thuh] bride yesterday.<br />
B: What! The [thee] bride in the wedding tomorrow?<br />
A: Yes, exactly.<div class="blogger-post-footer">Accent Reduction Miami is a blog by Lisa Jeffery, MBA, MA
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<em><span style="color: blue;">"Voice coaches are feeling the buzz of “The King's Speech,” the film about King George VI of England, which has snared 12 Oscar nominations. Business at Chicago-based Total Voice Inc. was up 25% this January over last, following the late-December opening of the film about the king and his coach, Lionel Logue. “The film is capturing something in the ether,” says owner Kate DeVore, 41. “It's making people aware that vocal coaching is even a service.”</span> </em><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><u>A Word from Lisa:</u></span><br />
One day in February 2010, I realized I was suddenly overbooked with my accent, voice and speech coaching, and had to go to a waiting list!<br />
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In the middle of the night, I bolted up in bed from my sleep, and yelled, <strong><em>"It's The King's Speech! That's it! It was nominated for all those academy awards! THAT'S IT!"</em></strong> The dog barked, the birds stirred and said, "go to bed," and even the cat raised it's head in curiosity. Of course, it immediately went back to sleep. I didn't. "Wow," I replied, scratching my head in wonder, "Wow." "Say it right!" quipped my African Grey, Valentina Dinero (she loves vowel sounds and plosives.)<br />
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Because of this movie and all it's nominations for academy awards, it is now not only stylish to work with a speech coach, but it's 'officially chic'! I have not had a chance to see the movie yet, but a couple of my clients called me from New York and said, "Lisa you HAVE to see this movie, it reminds us of our sessions with you... doing all those strange and fun things you made us do, like talking with corks in our mouth!"<br />
So I researched on the internet, and sure enough, I found my midnight hunch was correct. So I thank the writers and producers of the movie for showing the public that working with a speech coach is FUN, EXCITING and it works!<div class="blogger-post-footer">Accent Reduction Miami is a blog by Lisa Jeffery, MBA, MA
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I couldn't believe I found this: A Linguist's Dream, <a href="http://accent.gmu.edu/"><span style="color: #cc0000;">The Speech Accent Archive.</span></a> It was created by George Mason University.<br />
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I had so much fun listening to Yiddish, French, Minnesota, Alabama accents and New Jersey accents. I couldn't stop, I was rolling on the floor laughing. They are all recorded by native speakers of places like Memphis and Madagascar! This is the real thing, and they were all reading the following sentence:<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><em><strong>"Please call Stella. Ask her to bring these things with her from the store: </strong></em></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><em><strong>Six spoons of fresh snow peas, five thick slabs of blue cheese, </strong></em></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><em><strong>and maybe a snack for her brother Bob. </strong></em></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><em><strong>We also need a small plastic snake and a big toy frog for the kids. </strong></em></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><em><strong>She can scoop these things into three red bags, </strong></em></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><em><strong>and we will go meet her Wednesday at the train station."</strong></em></span></div><br />
It is a <strong><em>thorough</em></strong> compilation of English accents online. You can even make your own recording if you have an accent. In addition to audio samples of each accent, the Speech Accent Archive keeps track of biographical and regional data. Each clip has a readout of the sample paragraph next to the phonetic transcription. <strong><em><span style="color: #38761d;">WOW!</span></em></strong><br />
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<strong><em><span style="color: #38761d;">For every accent, it also has a list of linguistic distinctions for the accent. For Example, I listened to the <a href="http://accent.gmu.edu/browse_language.php?function=detail&speakerid=181">Greek accent</a>. It described the consonant vowel and syllabic mistakes. With a little practice you can begin to master any accent, and you don't even have to go there!</span></em></strong><br />
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This relatively simple idea has provided a structure for a unique set of data. In addition to being a fun site to casually explore, it provides a resource for speech pathologists, actors learning an accent or even engineers training speech recognition machines. If that wasn’t enough, all the files are released under a Creative Commons License. You can use them!<br />
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Have fun! It <span class="goog-spellcheck-word" style="background: yellow;">iz</span> <span class="goog-spellcheck-word" style="background: yellow;">zee</span> best zing vee have foun!<div class="blogger-post-footer">Accent Reduction Miami is a blog by Lisa Jeffery, MBA, MA
www.lisajeffery.com</div>Lisa Jeffery Speech And Accent Academyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02899581406831437754noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6648424324970193673.post-30798808700590216612010-07-01T22:55:00.000-04:002010-07-01T22:55:07.959-04:00Silent Letters in English: A Sonnet<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Psychology of Silent Letters in a Foreign Café<span style="font-size: xx-small;">©</span> </span><a href="http://www.lisajeffery.com/"><span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><em>by Lisa Jeffery</em></span></a><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In a loud coffee shop, I created my dictionary of silent letters.<br />
Crouching beneath muffled conversations of gossip about weekend soirees, <br />
my silent letters, like private benefactors, donated to the words, sophisticated them, <br />
brought a sense of mystery, a French-ness, a Latin-ness to dull, milquetoast English.<br />
Silent letters, like lacy French underwear, are not meant to be paraded.<br />
Silent letters are spies, Greeks at Troy, Trojan Horses to foreign students.<br />
Silent letters parachute into words like Green Beret Lieutenant Colonels.<br />
I laughed. People talked. I reminisced of saucy dialogues with my colleagues. <br />
I devoured my salmon sandwich and asked for the receipt, which I knew <br />
would put me in debt either on my mortgage, or my next island rendezvous.<br />
White as a ghost, I remained calm. I unfastened my handbag with my thumb, <br />
tensed my muscles as I often do when I’ve realized I’ve done something dumb. <br />
I placed my handkerchief in my palm and wiped the sweat off my balmy forehead.<br />
Damn, I thought. I had only brought - foreign currency. Oh, so apropos.<br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-size: xx-small;"><em>©Lisa Jeffery, 2010</em></span></span></span><div class="blogger-post-footer">Accent Reduction Miami is a blog by Lisa Jeffery, MBA, MA
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<strong>People who speak English as a second language are perfecting their accents in English</strong>. The New York Times recently wrote an article that America is ready for an accent, as long as it is not too strong. I have coached and trained thousands of people from New York to South America, Asia, Africa and Europe to reduce their accents. This includes television personalities, Fortune 500 executives, actors, entrepreneurs and unemployed people. I love to help people speak better, powerful, more articulate International English. <br />
<strong></strong><strong>My hero is Grace Kelly.</strong> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPcG1GDnTR5vMfsvudKbF-l1KNCxnhXZLfeNsrHVMqTuVKuTdkxitTNhz2A6MtS-qmJlv7w39qKUIg7Qucg3YrfmAE496yNpp-jkhUVHvFM_ksKkSwalvviW_-hZbOx_-ZF0jRMVVTFQ/s1600/Grace+Kelly.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" qu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPcG1GDnTR5vMfsvudKbF-l1KNCxnhXZLfeNsrHVMqTuVKuTdkxitTNhz2A6MtS-qmJlv7w39qKUIg7Qucg3YrfmAE496yNpp-jkhUVHvFM_ksKkSwalvviW_-hZbOx_-ZF0jRMVVTFQ/s200/Grace+Kelly.jpg" width="168" /></a>Years ago, Grace Kelly worked very hard to tone down her harsh Philadelphia accent so she could become a glamorous movie star (and a princess). She knew her voice had to be beautiful. A strange new device called the tape recorder just came out. The young Grace Kelly, aspiring actress, begged her father to buy it, and she worked for hours, alone and with a coach. Through many hours of hard work, it happened. (Well, it didn't 'happen' she MADE it happen!) <em>Watch her in her movies... wow, does she speak with elegance!</em> <br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><strong>How do I describe my coaching clients?</strong> One of my colleagues said it before I could: </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><em><span style="color: red;"><strong>"People who take accent reduction courses are usually highly motivated individuals who are looking for better job opportunities or promotions, increased social opportunities and better cultural understanding. If this sounds like you, it may be time for you to investigate these kinds of classes."</strong></span></em> <em> <span style="font-size: x-small;">(Susan Ryan, Accent Reduction Coach, Bethesda, Maryland)</span></em></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><strong>This summer, I'm holding intense</strong> <a href="http://www.crossingborderscommunication.com/index.php?page=VoiceSpeechPowerWorkshop">Accent Reduction Workshops in Miami</a>. If you are not ready for private coaching, take an intensive workshop! Spend an afternoon making your mouth sore from really, really working hard at it. You can assess which sounds and problems you need to work on and learn techniques of how to correct them yourself. Contact me for a free evaluation!</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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www.lisajeffery.com</div>Lisa Jeffery Speech And Accent Academyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02899581406831437754noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6648424324970193673.post-50969509698581498952010-06-05T04:13:00.002-04:002010-06-05T04:15:56.621-04:00New Links to Help You with Accent ReductionI'm always excited when I find a special new tool to help people reduce their accents. Here are two exciting places you can go on the internet to help you practice:<br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">1. </span></strong><a href="http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">Phonetics: The Sounds of Spoken Languages </span></strong></a><br />
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About the Phonetics Flash Animation Project: This site contains animated libraries of the phonetic sounds of English, German, and Spanish. Available for each consonant and vowel is an animated articulatory diagram, a step-by-step description, and video=audio of the sound spoken I context. It is intended for the student of phonetics, linguistics, and foreign languages. There is also an interactive diagram of the articulatory anatomy.<br />
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This project was a collaborative effort of the Departments of Spanish and Portuguese, German, Speech Pathology and Audiology, and Academic Technologies at the University of Iowa.<br />
<ul><li>This library is intended to be used by adult students and instructors of articulatory phonetics, linguistics or foreign language.</li>
<li>Instructors can use this for in-class projection.</li>
<li>Students can use the library to review phonetic sounds or supplement their class or textbooks.</li>
<li>Students studying English or Spanish as a foreign language can see and hear native speakers pronounce each sound.</li>
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An amazing collection of recordings of accents from around the world, all participating in the same sample collection task. Created by George Mason University. This is a great resource if you want to hear what different accents sound like. Great for actors!<br />
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<span style="color: black;">This is an interesting article based a 5-year study:</span><br />
<span style="color: #006600;"><br /></span><span style="color: #006600;">A Harvard University study has shown that when it comes to making friends, children prefer those whose speech patterns - rather than skin color - mimic their own. It has long been recognized that both kids and adults form and organize relationship networks largely based on the race, gender and age of others.<br /><br />While previous research has shown that white kids in the United States tend to pick same-race friends, new findings suggest that race takes a back seat when foreign or non-native accents come into play. <b>During the study, when offered the choice between making friends with either a white or black child who spoke French, English with a French accent, or native English, the group of white 5-year-old study participants overwhelmingly opted for the native speakers, regardless of their race.</b><br /><span style="color: black;"></span></span><span style="color: black;"><b>After helping hundreds of people reduce their accents, I have to say this study rings true not only for children, but for adults as well.</b> Accents are important for children in making friends, but they are important for adults in finding clients and doing business. As an accent reduction Executive Coach, I have found that improving the accent helps people find clients, jobs, and opportunities and friends.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">For example, many of my financial adviser clients with Latino accents in Miami, come to me to help them reduce their accent so they may increase their client base and find American clients. I also work with entrepreneurs who have a 'Miami' accent. They want to reduce it so they may do business with more people in Boca Raton, Palm Beach and the rest of the United States. Many actors also work with me to reduce their accents, as they are limited on parts they can play.</span> I have worked with people to reduce their Texas accents, as they weren't 'chic' on Wall Street. When Obama announced his candidacy for president, many African American young entrepreneurs came to me to help them reduce the Ebonics in their speech. They knew they needed to be able to "switch" their speech in order to increase their chances of success.<br />
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<span style="color: black;">This study is interesting because it confirms that accents keep us in closed circles. Fortunately, we CAN change our accents, and people do it all the time.</span><br />
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<em>Oh my, we like to hang around people who talk like us! <span style="color: black;">Improving your accent helps people find new clients, jobs, opportunities and new friends!</span></em><br />
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The "ee" and "i" sounds are always getting mixed up.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong>So I call it "The Beach/Bitch" problem.</strong> </span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span>(I live in Miami, I can do that!)<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgX03FB-1r26CMmdFnMqlM72rGRJ04vob9BFJxC7uzBcL5GvzyyUlh4uh1F0OZXlMPA_-U5BLWItrxbuO86dvuhzBSDxK-WY4HDbJIg9R7hyvbHx9g2Ex1mSinbdOZ81cfdqXEqTnrl0A/s1600-h/beach.jpg"><img style="WIDTH: 200px; HEIGHT: 150px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375609257191986290" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgX03FB-1r26CMmdFnMqlM72rGRJ04vob9BFJxC7uzBcL5GvzyyUlh4uh1F0OZXlMPA_-U5BLWItrxbuO86dvuhzBSDxK-WY4HDbJIg9R7hyvbHx9g2Ex1mSinbdOZ81cfdqXEqTnrl0A/s200/beach.jpg" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwBHPB5_HYLZ0qaa65ZyVBS4iYX18_SCY1zGBPNqMK6EBE6Ees_C_ZE1WkGOLNdPJlTkF-PjaRT3Mqz7xx4cOeUMpeQ7OeqN8O03KNn-FKc153unK-u9j-R3yGRs_A_wDgdC-iAIElBw/s1600-h/Bitch+on+the+Beach+(Barbie).jpg"><img style="WIDTH: 165px; HEIGHT: 152px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375609263714718386" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwBHPB5_HYLZ0qaa65ZyVBS4iYX18_SCY1zGBPNqMK6EBE6Ees_C_ZE1WkGOLNdPJlTkF-PjaRT3Mqz7xx4cOeUMpeQ7OeqN8O03KNn-FKc153unK-u9j-R3yGRs_A_wDgdC-iAIElBw/s200/Bitch+on+the+Beach+(Barbie).jpg" /></a><br /><em><span style="color:#006600;">(The Beach)...................................</span></em><span style="color:#006600;"><em>(The Rich Bitch)</em><br /></span><br />I also call the ee/i accent problem the "Sheet/Sh*t" problem (but that's not as elegant.) Most of my Spanish-speaking clients tell me with a horrified look on their face "Oh, I NEVER say the word sheet - I'm afraid of what will happen. So I say 'linens' instead!)<br /><br />Today I laughed at story a client told me about a friend who caused a disaster with the "Sheet/Sh*t" problem. She checked into a hotel and found the sheet was dirty on the bed. She told the front desk:<br />Woman: "I have a problem, my 'sh*t' is dirty!"<br />(The front desk clerk was confused and horrified, not to mention, disgusted.)<br />Desk Clerk: "I'm sorry, I can't help you!"<br />Woman (screaming): "But my 'sh*t' is dirty! It's dirty!"<br />Desk Clerk: "Lady, 'sh*t' is always dirty! What can I do? Do you want me to call a doctor?"<br /><br />It was then that she realized what a horrible mistake she had made, did not know how to correct it. She hoped she never had a problem with sheets again so she wouldn't have to say it. (It's like that in Miami.)<br /><br />So let's go back to the beach with the bitch. Let's say it's South Bitch, oops, I mean South Beach. (Hee hee). I've noticed that in all cases, my clients are ABLE to say both sounds correctly, but they always get them mixed up in their speech.<br /><br />They can't understand why the sounds come out wrong. It's like there is "a short circuit" in the brain, some kind of crossed wires. But don't worry, there is a fix! The first thing I get my clients and students to do is get them to hear the subtle differences in the two sounds. We say the two sounds next to each other. We say it wrong, say it right, say it wrong, say it right -- until the brain can consciously recognize which sounds it is sending to the mouth.<br /><br />I call this the <strong>"Lisa Jeffery Homeopathic Method of Correcting Mistakes."</strong> (It works for quivering Elvis Legs in Public speaking too!) Sometimes this takes time, but it always works. Here is how you can practice the "Beach/Bitch" problem: Mix the two (vowel sounds) with different consonants. For example: beach/bitch; reach/rich. This works miracles. So here's my famous practice sentence, Miami style: Say this: "When you go to the beach, reach for the rich bitch!"<br />I once had a corporate training class of 22 people saying this all at once -- just as the CEO walked by! (Hee Hee.) He popped his head in the class, "What's going on here?”Accent reduction, Miami style!" somebody yelled. (Thank god!)<br /><br />This isn't just a problem with Spanish speakers; I've noticed it with my French, Portuguese, Italian, Turkish, Chinese and Russian clients too. My favorite French client discovered she can say these two sounds correctly, except with the consonant "L". 'Little' always comes out 'leetle', no matter how hard she tried. I asked her to say the word sick. And brick. She could say them! She could also say the word 'lily' correctly. So her practice sentence was <strong><em>"The rich bitch has little lilies."<br /></em></strong><br />Then we usually laugh. Can you picture the rich bitch on the beach with her bouquet of little lilies? If you've been to South Beach, you may have seen her. (But make sure you say BEACH!)<br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;color:#006600;"><em>* Lisa Jeffery, MBA, MA teaches Advanced Business English for FIU's International MBA program, and Communication at Barry University. She provides corporate training programs and private executive coaching in accent reduction and public speaking skills. Her clients primarily fall into three groups: television personalities, lawyers, and financial advisors & CEOs.</em></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><em>If you are interested in Accent Reduction coaching or training, contact Lisa at </em></span><a href="http://www.lisajeffery.com/"><span style="font-size:85%;"><em>www.lisajeffery.com</em></span></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><em> for a free consultation.</em></span><div class="blogger-post-footer">Accent Reduction Miami is a blog by Lisa Jeffery, MBA, MA
www.lisajeffery.com</div>Lisa Jeffery Speech And Accent Academyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02899581406831437754noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6648424324970193673.post-19932580360968579372009-02-02T23:46:00.004-05:002009-02-03T00:12:30.416-05:00The Yellow Jello Problem - An Accent Mystery<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1uBvO8h2gEGJH7fP0UkDD92OphhYkzPG1vXA1UMTpntNATyuaELRRovpoquGTug4DZG6DFQNo8yK9ZAyK-Zi8w91oTh_QCcgaGeGDt4ihhfljUPeNOAiSCi7tD3GJwTcnH-ff6zJTgw/s1600-h/yellow-jello.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1uBvO8h2gEGJH7fP0UkDD92OphhYkzPG1vXA1UMTpntNATyuaELRRovpoquGTug4DZG6DFQNo8yK9ZAyK-Zi8w91oTh_QCcgaGeGDt4ihhfljUPeNOAiSCi7tD3GJwTcnH-ff6zJTgw/s200/yellow-jello.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5298428092498061442" border="0" /></a>Recently, I was contemplating why a lot of my Spanish Speaking Clients have a Y-J problem when they study accent reduction. (They always get them mixed up.) They say "y" words as "j" words and visa-versa. I call it the "Yellow Jello" problem. I looked on the internet for artwork of yellow jello, and to my delight and amazement, I discovered a bizarre trend. People around the country are putting their staplers in yellow jello and serving it at the office. I'm not kidding. Why are they doing that? It's a huge mystery.<br /><br />I have learned that Spanish speakers are perfectly capable of saying both sounds. It's exactly like Chinese speakers mixing up "R"s and "L"s. <br /><br />So I've reached the conclusion that some wires are crossed in the language penthouse of the brain, and we have to do some cerebral re-wiring of thought. I took a poll among my Spanish speaking students and clients and they said, "Jes, it true, Ms. Yeffery, we yust do it!" <br /><br />Apparantly, it's out of habit that the mistake is made again and again. And that makes it very easy, because "jou see," bad habits can be broken, and good habits can be formed. So how do jou do it?<br /><br />Here are some tips:<br /><br />1. Start by making your brain aware that you are doing it. Try to catch yourself and keep "score" in your daily agenda. Make a competition with your friends of who gets the highest score.<br />2. After keeping score for several days, begin to correct yourself every time you notice the mistake. This eventually becomes a habit, and it slowly begins to change.<br />3. Just for fun, practice PURPOSELY switching the sounds. This also makes jour brain aware, and sounds so funny, jou can actually have fun. Yust keep doing it!<br /><br />A Bonus: It might help if make some yellow jello and serve it to your friends. I'm not sure about this one, but it's worth a try!<div class="blogger-post-footer">Accent Reduction Miami is a blog by Lisa Jeffery, MBA, MA
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