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At Confident Speech, we’re here to help you quickly improve your professional and personal speaking skills in English.
- Accent modification for better English pronunciation.
- Effective Speaking for professionals who depend on clear pronunciation, effective voice, and the ability to convey a message with impact.
Speech instruction: Private or Group
Achieve your best when you speak English with confident, clear pronunciation! Choose group or private instruction. Our next group program begins June 23!
Group instruction: Basic Level class. This is for people who learned English as a second language.
- Tuesdays and Thursdays, 6:30-7:45 pm.
10 sessions:
June 23, 25, July 7, 9, 14, 16, 21, 23, 28, 30.
Group instruction: Intermediate Level class. After you have completed the Basic Level, take the next step! Next Intermediate class starts September 14!
Private instruction: Start individual instruction whenever you like. Individual attention, customized programs!
Click for details about accent instruction.Happy Mother's Day and Father's Day!
Two vowels to master in English
Can you look at how an English word is written and know how to say it? Sometimes yes, and sometimes no. The big problem is often the vowels. People mastering English are sometimes unsure how to pronounce the vowels correctly.
First, we have to distinguish between the letters we use to write the vowels and the actual sounds of the vowels. Sometimes, the letters for vowels give us the right clues for how to say the vowels correctly in a word. Unfortunately, however, this is not always the case.
To avoid confusion, Confident Speech uses nicknames to identify each of the vowel sounds of American English. In honor of Mother’s Day and Father’s Day, Confident Speech wants to help everyone master two vowels in American English: the “Lucky Mother” vowel (as in “cut,” “bump,” and “month”) and the “Honest Father” vowel (as in “pot,” “shock,” and “mop”).
Learn more about the "Lucky Mother" and
"Honest Father" vowels.
Culture brief: What’s hot in New York
When Americans talk about the temperature indoors or outdoors, we usually speak of degrees on the Fahrenheit scale. The rest of the world uses the Celsius scale. Many Americans are not accustomed to the Celsius scale. Most visitors to the United States are unfamiliar with Fahrenheit!
How do you convert between Fahrenheit and Celsius temperature scales?
- You can perform a mathematical calculation.
- You can memorize some common correspondences between Fahrenheit and Celsius.
- You can refer to a software conversion tool on the internet. Try the following link. www.onlineconversion.com/temperature.htm
- New Yorkers can use a special trick for temperature conversion!
Here’s the special trick for New Yorkers. If you know the stations for the subway trains in New York, you can easily perform temperature calculations mentally! Convert temperatures: the Lexington Avenue subway secret!
Order Confident Speech software programs
Everyone agrees! It can be tricky to pronounce some words in English correctly. Whether you grew up speaking English or you learned English as a second language, you may not know the correct pronunciation of some words. Confident Speech has selected some of the most frequently mispronounced words and developed two software programs to help you learn and remember the correct pronunciations. These self-study programs are easy, fun, affordable, and (best of all!) foolproof.
- 50 Words You Should Never Mispronounce
- 50 Mispronunciations that Careful Speakers Avoid
Find out which program is best for you. Try the free demo lessons. Order the full version of each program for only $27.00. Learn more by clicking below.