Posts Tagged ‘pronunciation’
Monday, March 11th, 2013
Premier Christy Clark has recently announced the allocation of $3.1 million under the ‘Canada Starts Here: The BC Jobs Plan’. These funds are aimed at fueling the training pilot program which will focus on the skills enhancement of British Columbian micro business owners. There are over 1.200 micro businesspersons eligible under the Labor Market Agreement, each of whom will have $1,500 worth of business training that will aid in the progress of their business, and consequently contribute in the long-term advancement of the state. http://www.newsroom.gov.bc.ca/2012/05/premier-announces-skills-training-for-micro-businesses.htm
L2 Accent Reduction Centre is an excellent training provider for the Micro Business Program as many business owners have a great need to communicate well both in business writing and every day speaking tasks.
L2 Accent Reduction Centre is offering courses with no charge to the business owner; these funds will be covered through the Microbusiness Program. These courses include accent reduction training, which is essential to clear communication, especially when dealing with customer service issues. Similarly, voice projection training and writing courses would greatly improve the oral and written discourse of business for these small-business owners.
Business owners, who would like to take advantage of the world-class oral and written training provided by L2 Accent Reduction Centre, can contact http://www.chamberlearningnetwork.com/. However, the candidates need to comply with all the conditions set by the province for being entitled to free training by L2 Accent Reduction Centre.
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Monday, March 4th, 2013
London, 28th January 28, 2013: The unique fair on education and innovation, BETT 2013, will be held at Excel, East London, United Kingdom from January 30th to February 2nd 2013. Having attracted an audience of 30,359 persons in 2012, as reported by AV Europe, BETT will host in 2013 yet another outstanding fair on incorporating technology in education. This fair attracts big players such as Samsung Electronics, Intel Software and Adobe Education. Of notable interest is the launch of L2 Accent Reduction Centre in India in association with Buffered Software Solutions, a technology-driven company that aims to provide software and applications for enterprises in order to add value and increase efficiency in India. Buffered Software has a vast portfolio comprising of technology solutions revolving around mobile- and e-learning for K-12 grade and Higher Education, Publishers and Corporate Clients.
BSS will be represented by Mr. Shiv Mogali at the BETT 2013 Exhibition at stall number C362. It is at this fair that Buffered Soft will launch L2 Accent Reduction Centre in India. L2 offers state-of-the-art Accent Reduction Courses and other programs that help corporate clients; students and business persons achieve growth and career progress in their respective fields. It offers its services in several Asian countries, including China, by making it possible for individuals to communicate clearly and effectively in English so that unintelligible language and incorrect pronunciation is never a barrier to communication. L2 Accent Reduction will be introduced to the Indian educational arena by BSS in order to facilitate L2’s services in India.
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Monday, February 11th, 2013
One way to improve your rythymn when speaking in English is to identify and focus your stress on the main parts of speech in a sentence.
Birds eat worms.
In this sentence, there are three beats. The subject, the main verb, and the object take the stress.
The birds will eat the worms.
In this sentence, there are also three beats. The noun heads are birds, and worms; the main verb is eat. All other function words take on reduced forms. The becomes a quick and joins the word bird or worms. Will sounds more like el, and can join on to the end of the word bird, or to the main verb eat.
Thebirdsel eat theworms.
Learning to identify these parts of speech and knowing when and what sounds to reduce will greatly improve the sound of your spoken English.
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Thursday, November 8th, 2012
On Monday, October 22, 2012, Jeff Madigan from the L2 Accent Reduction Center gave a presentation to the students at Columbia College. Columbia College is certified post secondary institution catering to international students that offers bridge programs to UBC and other universities. For students who studied English as a Second Language, accented speech can be a barrier after completing their studies and hitting the North American labour Market. SFU advisor, Kirk Hill states, “Graduates tend to enter the workforce with all of the qualifications, education, and ambition, but those with foreign accents often hit a huge roadblock during their very first phone interview.” Columbia College instructor, Fatin Jallad agrees. He notes that depending on where an international student is from, he can struggle more to understand their speech. What he notices is something everyone experiences. Depending on a person’s familiarity with the sound of specific language families, a person’s accent can be either easier or harder to distinguish in terms of speech intelligibility.
Leaders of the Columbia College Entrepreneur Club, Baiaman Urmatbek and Akbuken Shektibay, met up with L2 Accent Reduction at a workshop given at SFU. They invited Jeff Madigan to speak at their club, not just about voice training, but about how he became an entrepreneur. ”It’s good for our club to get speakers like Jeff, our club is one of the biggest at Columbia College, says Shektibay. L2 Accent hopes that they have inspired the students at Columbia College and given them some strategies to help them in their future after graduating.
Tags: accent reduction courses, accent reduction training, Canadian Accent, career, Chinese, cross-cultural, English as a Second Language, ESL, foreign accents, Immigrant, immigrants, Jeff Madigan, mispronouncing, pronunciation, pronunciation training, Vancouver
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Thursday, November 1st, 2012
Jennifer and Jeff Madigan have put themselves at the forefront of addressing a unique need for the ever increasing internationally trained professional that makes up a large segment of Canada’s workforce. L2 Accent Reduction works with many corporations such as Best Buy, BC Transmission Corporation, BC Hydro, Fairmont Hotels, Revenue Canada, to name a few. Since opening, they have helped hundreds of people, and with their internet accent reduction training programs, in the lower mainland as well as abroad in India, The Philippines, The Czech Republic, and China.
For Jennifer, the daughter of an immigrant, L2 Accent Reduction Centre, provides training that was inspired from her father’s struggles. “My dad first came to this country in 1970 at the age of 28. He was university educated and spoke fluent English and yet when he spoke no one understood him. Ever since I was a little girl, I’ve always wanted to find a way to help individuals speak clearer and relate better at work.” Jennifer says.
Jennifer went on to study Linguistics and Speech Pathology and obtained her Master’s in Education to equip herself to help people like her father. Her work also brought her together with her husband Jeff, whose background in English fluency tests such as TOEFL and IELTS, have helped L2 Accent Reduction Centre provide English support in all areas of language training. Today, the L2 Accent Reduction Centre has courses in Speaking, Writing, Accent Reduction Training and Test Preparation. “During my career, I have seen so many educated people like my father, work survival jobs, because they are not understood and are not given a chance for advanced employment. While there are a lot of great companies that will support their diverse staff, there are many individuals who cannot get funding.”, explains Jennifer Madigan.
Jennifer has created the Fresh Start Program, a program that provides English support to single immigrant parents free of charge. The program was inspired by her sister, who was a single mom, and was the only single parent to ever graduate from SFU’s rigorous Co-op business program. In 2009, Jennifer’s sister established the Pay it Forward Bursary at SFU for single parents, and encouraged Jennifer to start a special program for single immigrant parents. Jennifer feels that it is one small way she can help people who have sacrificed so much to make a better life for their children just as her father had done. The L2 Accent Reduction Centre also works with a number of agencies such as Multicultural Helping House, SUCCESS, Arrive BC, Douglas College Skills Connect, CGA and provides workshops on Accent Reduction.
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