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What People Are Saying about Speech Modification

O.E.K.

Native Mongolian Speaker

"I would say to my friends, colleagues and co-workers . . . Speech Modification is the most important class for all international students, workers and non-native English speakers. It was the most interesting, helpful, useful, and professional class I have ever taken before."

O.R.S.

Native Spanish Speaker

"Learning about error patterns, how to correct them, and what things I needed to correct helped me to be more confident speaking English. I learned a lot and what I learned helps me to understand and improve my speech!"

Denis Novak

Technical Manager, Native Russian Speaker

"Christine was an excellent teacher and helped me a lot with reduction of my heavy Russian accent. The results are very noticeable on my everyday life. I definitely would recommend he to any non-native speaker who want to sound more clear for an American ear."

Charles Tay, Graduate Student

Native of Singapore

""Outstanding" is a word that I would use to describe my training experience with Christine. I was fortunate to find Christine to help me with accent-reduction a few years ago. A dedicated trainer, she has done a remarkable job in identifying and targeting the areas that I needed to improve on. A friendly and warm person, Christine made every training session enjoyable for me, and she is someone that I can approach for advice even after my program was over. I would definitely recommend Christine to anyone who wants to reduce accent or improve communication skills in general!"

Kumi Ikeda, Legal Policy at Twitter

Native Japanese Speaker

"At the first assessment, Christine was quick to pin point weaknesses in my speech/pronunciation pattern. Then she specifically targeted to improve the weaknesses first. Her approach was very efficient. I highly recommend to work with her!"

Luke Kyohere

Founder & CEO at Beyonic, Inc

"My new role at my job required increased public speaking and increased communication with potential partners and customers. I heard about Christine's coaching online, and reached out. I didn't regret it. Her coaching's personalized and flexible. She worked around my travel schedule and made the effort to understand my specific needs and tailor sessions just for me. I cannot recommend her services highly enough."

Valerie Eberlein

CPA

"Christine is a great coach! Her classes are very structured, but fun at the same time. She is very flexible with schedules and always offers a lot of additional materials. I learned so many different things from her. She made me feel more confident in professional and personal conversations. "

Tibor Fabian, Senior Data Scientist

Native Hungarian Speaker

"Christine is a highly qualified and excellent trainer. She helped me to find my accent issues and to improve my pronunciation skills. She provided me with exercises to achieve my goals quickly. I can use her helpful advices ever since for further improvement on daily bases. I'm happy that I found Christine and I highly recommend her as a personal trainer."

Mahfuz Khalili

CEO

"Christine Dunbar is a professional speech therapist who understands subtle differences in pronunciation of the English speakers from different regions as well as people whose primary language is not English. Her quick and prompt diagnosis of problems with my accents, which I was not aware of, helped me to correct myself tremendously in my professional presentations and conversations. "

Krishnan P. Iyer

"Christine, I enjoyed your session at WeWork yesterday. You solved in less than a minute what I had been trying to understand for the last 30 years in the US! I appreciate it."

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About Your Instructor

Speech Language Pathologist Christine Dunbar

Christine is a nationally certified Speech Language Pathologist with over 20 years experience working with individuals to improve their communication skills. She holds a Masters of Science in Speech and Hearing Sciences from the University of Washington. Christine provides 1:1 and corporate training worldwide. She teaches classes in the greater Seattle area.

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Our SMART Students Talk About the Courses

5 star rating

Very useful course

Alireza Abaie

I really achieved a lot in 6 weeks through getting the instructions and exercises in this course. After 6 weeks, I found a really natural accent in my English.

I really achieved a lot in 6 weeks through getting the instructions and exercises in this course. After 6 weeks, I found a really natural accent in my English.

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5 star rating

Great Course for Advanced Speakers!

Bipin Shah

I never realized how many things are different in American English in fluent sentences. This course really helped me improve my American Accent.

I never realized how many things are different in American English in fluent sentences. This course really helped me improve my American Accent.

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5 star rating

Great Course!

Augusto César Herrera Sosa

Much needed. I find it very useful and detailed, not easy but phonetics is complicated. Hope i review it again and again to get the most out of it!

Much needed. I find it very useful and detailed, not easy but phonetics is complicated. Hope i review it again and again to get the most out of it!

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5 star rating

Fun and very helpful

Othon Reyes

Spanish-native speaker here. I've lived in the USA for 5 years and I work in an environment that demands good communication skills. Every day I struggle to s...

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Spanish-native speaker here. I've lived in the USA for 5 years and I work in an environment that demands good communication skills. Every day I struggle to speak and give clear and concise messages, not only that but my peers struggled to understand me. I had very little confidence driving meetings because the audience would lose attention because they couldn't understand me. Fed up of that situation I enrolled to the "American Accent Training for Professionals" course. I didn't know what to expect and I was afraid of speaking. Anyways, first class I was mind blown. Christine, the teacher, not only has a lot of years of experience helping professionals under her belt, she gave a class very dynamic, with a lot of participation between peers and combining theory and practice. During the course she showed us how to progress, what accent patterns of our native language could be getting into the way and how to improve them, how to practice solo and with people. Also the other classmates were very open and social, we were a multicultural class with people from India, China, Mongolia, Russia, Poland and Mexico which it was great because I get to hear different accents. Overall, I would recommend this course for anyone that wants to improve her/his accent. I feel that now I have the tools to improve it.

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5 star rating

Smart American Accent

Nastaran Khodadadegan

She's the best. Arrangements everything . Patient and understanding situation.

She's the best. Arrangements everything . Patient and understanding situation.

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5 star rating

Amazing!

daniela cossetti

Useful and well done

Useful and well done

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