Episode 45:
Choose your voice, be understood
with Christi Barb
In this episode, you’ll learn…
- What defines an “accent” and why we all have one
- What makes some foreign accents more difficult for American English listeners to understand than others
- Methods for making changes to your accent
- Examples of successful speakers who “gained an accent” in order to be understood
Our Guest
Christi Barb, founder of Adastra Speech, is a speech and language coach for people who speak English with an accent that makes it difficult to be understood clearly. Combining speech-language pathology methods with her understanding of how languages affect speech from her experience teaching English as a second language, Christi is a specialist in analyzing what contributes to being “easy to understand”.
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