Sitting across from his teacher, Edgar Martinez repeated the word he couldn’t quite pronounce: “situation.” “Sit-oo-a-shun,” he said. “What happens with the tu?” asked the teacher, Lisa Mojsin, hired ...

The foreign accents that charm many Americans can also be a major barrier to getting hired after graduation. In order for international students with heavy accents to improve their employment chances ...

Carolina Freedman can read and write English perfectly but says she's been embarrassed when speaking it. She says she's had people tell her they don't speak Spanish when she's speaking English. "I was ...

As part of a comprehensive communications coaching service, The Accent Coach now offers clients a full communications training as part of regular lessons. I want every one of my clients to have access ...

GREAT FALLS, Va. -- Armed with a tape recorder and endless patience, Sharon Heffley has spent the past 17 years unraveling the knot of mispronunciations and garbled syllables common to many ...

Lisa Trongprakob used to dread self-introductions. People often asked her to spell out “Lisa” as they couldn’t understand her pronunciation “Li-tha.” Growing up in Thailand, she began to learn English ...

Erik Singer is a New York–based master teacher of Knight-Thompson Speechwork and a dialectcoaches.com-verified master coach. Trained as an actor, Singer has studied accents and linguistics for years, ...