Accent reduction, it’s a thing.
“I’m originally from Japan, but after 17 years on Long Island, my accent was a mix of the two. It was awful.
I met with Ita–she was amazing! She told me we could do this!
Twelve sessions later, I gave a speech at my best friend’s wedding. I was easily able to apply all the techniques Ita taught me. It was incredible. One woman blamed me for smearing her makeup; she was crying so hard.“
Miwa Sbinowitz
You can completely change your accent, no matter what anyone says. I’ve been doing it for my clients successfully for 25 years. You only have to want it bad enough and follow the rules 🙂
Of course, speaking at a normal rate is a part of accent reduction.
A fluency disorder causes problems with the flow, rhythm, and speed of speech. If you stutter, your speech may sound interrupted or blocked, as though you are trying to say a sound but it doesn’t come out. You may repeat part or all of a word as you to say it. You may drag out syllables. Or you may talk breathlessly, or seem tense while trying to speak. If you clutter, you often speak fast and merge some words together or cut off parts of them. You may sound like you are slurring or mumbling. And you may stop and start speech and say “um” or “uh” often when talking.
Talking too fast.. Yet another one of my bad habits. Usually this is from my anxiety, but I love that there are tricks and techniques I can practice to help tone this down.
Great reviews! I need to be able to communicate better too. My problem is I speak too fast whenever I’m nervous and then I end up running out of breath when I reach the end of my sentence. Would love to find out how I can work with you on that
Thank you so much, Wiliam!
The best way to get started is with The Voice Spa. It teaches you all the steps needed. It’s me on video going through it with you, assigning you homework 🙂 etc.
Then you can think about having individual sessions with me 🙂
I’m here for you! You can get in my schedule at the bottom of each article or you can get The Voice Spa
Woahh the reviews are just amazing! Keep up the work. I also face this problem of talking fast due to anxiety / nervousness or sometimes I just want to complete my speech or any other talk as fast as possible and due to that my impression goes down, that’s worst of all. I will work on myself and would like to contact you for the same.