Speech Enhancement

A practical experiential course to help individuals use English with greater ease and confidence, combining conversational English with accent training.

What will I learn?

By the end of the course, you’ll have

• Gained high awareness and confidence in communicating in Business and Conversational Enlgish with various audiences through different media (telephone, email, face-to-face, etc.)
• Improved interpersonal and presentational communication skills for various business settings.
• Improved socio-linguistic competence in English for various business and cultural settings, including small talk for rapport/relationship-building, small group communication, negotiating, etc.)
• Enhanced strategic competence by gaining new strategies for overcoming difficulties and challenges in communication
• Installed processes for continuous learning and peer coaching
• Improved intelligibility, comprehensibility and accent reduction

Additional questions about the course?

• Q: What is the focus of the course?
  A: The course provides intensive practice on improving your speech , which means focusing on voice modulation, accent and pronunciation, grammar and vocabulary, and overall personality projection.
• Q: Who is the course for?
  A: The course is for people who want or need intensive practice to improve their overall speaking ability in a short time, as, for example, people who need to do a speech or presentation, travel abroad for work, host guests from another country, or work with people from different cultures.
• Q: What kind of preparation does the course entail?
  A: Students are typically asked to do a 5-minute video before the course, which will serve as baseline. At the end of the course, you’ll be asked to do another video so you can assess what areas you’ve improved and what else you need to work on.

Who should enroll in this course?
Anyone who want intensive speech practice