Being misunderstood is frustrating.
Every day, many fluent English speakers experience this frustration due to their accents in spoken English. Whether you come from Boston or Bangalore, if others cannot understand you it does not matter how correct your English is.
Speak Easy Accent Modification trains proficient English speakers to change the way they communicate so that clients, colleagues, strangers and even friends can better understand them. While many people call this sort of training accent reduction, what's really happening is that the speaker's accent is being changed, or modified.
Listen to some Before & After samples to hear how some typical Speak Easy clients have changed the way they communicate in English.
Speak Easy clients follow a completely individualized course of study, working with an instructor once per week -- in person or at a distance -- and practicing on their own every day. By the end of the training, clients experience at least a 50% improvement in their ability to be understood.
People who have not scored as well as they had hoped on the TSE (Test of Spoken English) or Speak Test also benefit greatly from the Speak Easy program.
Many employers support this training, and we can work at your workplace or in the Speak Easy office in downtown Springfield, MA. Speak Easy is the only accent training business in the state of Massachusetts to qualify for the MA Department of Labor's Express Grant program. This program gives qualified Massachusetts employers 50% of the cost of training.
Where do accents come from? Here's an interesting article from the National Museum of Language at the College of Charleston.