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1 Tip to Speak Slower in English
Imagine how much easier things would be at work if you knew exactly how to speak slower and decrease your speaking English speed. Perhaps you would need to repeat yourself less. You would receive fewer “Could you please slow down and repeat that” requests. One Thing...
Warm-Up Your Spoken English to Win
Speaking clearly in meetings and on calls can help you to advance your career and increase your confidence in professional contexts. One quick tip I’d like to share with you is to do a quick speech warm-up prior to participating in a call or joining by video...
5 Quick Ways to Speak English Effectively in the Global Workplace
While it’s great to be an expert in law, pharmaceutical research, or finance, there’s another subject that may speed up your professional success in today’s global workplace: Global English-Speaking Skills 101. Those who speak English more effectively in the global...
Break The Accent Barrier That’s Holding You Back
Sign Up Now for a Break The Accent Barrier Breakthrough Session This month, I'm hosting a limited number of FREE 1-on-1 Break the Accent Barrier Breakthrough Strategy Sessions. These sessions are designed to help business professionals and subject experts to move to...
Registration Deadline: January 21, 2019
Interested in joining other professionals in the Chicago Loop for a systematic, engaging, and results-driven global English-speaking skills training program this winter?Join Sarah Gallant for her signature English Pronunciation-Accent Modification program...
There’s a Place for YouTube with English Pronunciation Training But….
How often have you gone to YouTube and found yourself watching a variety of videos on how to produce a specific sound? Perhaps the /r/ and /l/. Or /i/ vs. /I/. And there's the /m/, /n/, and /ŋ/--make sure to produce these through the nasal cavity. What...
Music To My Ears (!) at the End of our English Pronunciation Course
So we finished our 6-week Advanced English Pronunciation for Professionals course last week. I remember that as I was putting away a few things, I overheard the training participants lingering by the elevator door. They were having a conversation about...
Upcoming Chicago Loop English Pronunciation Skills Course
Last week, one training participant in our Chicago Loop English Pronunciation Skills for Professionals course said, I had no idea that working with my English pronunciation would involve much more than the mechanical copy & repeat of sounds. I smiled and replied,...
If You’re Motivated, Practice Smart
So where do you go when you want to improve your English pronunciation or public speaking skills? A book? You Tube? There are some fantastic English pronunciation resources out there. There is Susan Cameron's Perfecting Your English Pronunciation and...
Feedback Is Easier To Give Than To Receive, But Is It Always?
Last week, I talked about how if you're needing to improve your English speaking skills over the next 2-3 months, make sure to ask yourself the right questions, use the appropriate resources, and make the time. Now I'd like to add: Place great value in...
Sarah Gallant, Executive & STEM Professional Global English Speech Coach. Founder of CommuniClear Global.
