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Re:Bring Me Your Accents. Immigration Fuels Innovation by parennoob on Thursday August 29, 2013 @12:00PM (#6296559)
I guess this might be a good place to ask -- are there any good places people can recommend for accent training? I can write English pretty decently (in fact, probably better than most of the American people I have seen - but I guess Dunning-Kruger might be involved.) But I still retain the accent of my native country, which somewhat hampers me in the US (specially if PG thinks people like that are clueless.)

So, can people recommend any good online courses / institutes where I can improve my accent to bring it more in line with the standard American one?

Re:Bring Me Your Accents. Immigration Fuels Innovation by kroger on Thursday August 29, 2013 @02:43PM (#6297724)
Rachel's English has a lot of free videos with focus on phonetics:

http://www.rachelsenglish.com

I like this course (I bought the pdf+mp3 version):

http://tarlespeech.com/accent-services/accent-products/stand...

http://tarlespeech.com/accent-services/accent-products/stand...

She also has some very helpful free videos:

http://tarlespeech.com/accent-services/minute-of-speech/

It's very important to record and listen to yourself. It'll become clear very quickly what you need to improve.

Re:Bring Me Your Accents. Immigration Fuels Innovation by roadg33k on Thursday August 29, 2013 @12:04PM (#6296580)
Re:Bring Me Your Accents. Immigration Fuels Innovation by parennoob on Thursday August 29, 2013 @12:06PM (#6296592)
Ugh. First think I clicked on there told me to prounounce it "Ennerprise" and "innegrade" :)

Seriously though, thanks. Will check it out.

Re:Bring Me Your Accents. Immigration Fuels Innovation by samatman on Thursday August 29, 2013 @01:07PM (#6297003)
Innegraded ennerprise sofware. Not a t to be heard. Good luck.
Re:Bring Me Your Accents. Immigration Fuels Innovation by auctiontheory on Thursday August 29, 2013 @01:51PM (#6297316)
In SF, I really like my voice coach, Eugene O'Reilly: [email protected]. (I have no financial connection with him other than as a satisfied customer.) I believe he also does online accent preparation. His website is horrid - don't judge him by that.