The main goals here at Pronunciation Pro focus on helping individuals improve pronunciation in order to increase confidence and be understood.
When you speak English, do you notice other English speakers cocking their heads to one side and squinting their eyes really hard trying to understand you? If so, it might be your accent.
But how can you improve it if that’s how you’ve been speaking your whole life? Besides, shouldn’t the other person try harder to understand you? Well, they can and some probably will but communication is a two-way street.
If you want to truly master the English language and enjoy using it then you should try to improve pronunciation. Here are 5 reasons for why:
1. To Avoid Misunderstandings
One of the biggest problems with accents is they can create misunderstandings between people. English is a tricky language since it has short and long vowel sounds and sometimes, a slight confusion of the two can change the entire meaning of a word.
To avoid embarrassing mistakes and reduce misunderstandings, you should try to learn to pronounce words the right way.
2. Get Messages Across Faster
Have you ever tried to get an idea across to someone in English and find yourself exhausted by the end? That’s because a strong accent makes the conversation much longer than it needs to be.
Instead of getting your message across to someone quickly, you spend most of your time repeating yourself and by the end of it, you’re not even sure what you’re saying anymore.
3. Increase Your Confidence
Do you feel hesitant to talk to people because of your accent? Or maybe someone has made fun of you for it?
With accent reduction training, we can help you remove any doubts about how to pronounce the most difficult words in English and help you boost your confidence in speaking so you can participate in whatever settings you’d like.
4. Develop More Meaningful Relationships
Small talk gets old fast and if you see the same people every day, you probably know what we mean. You ask them how they are, you talk about the weather and then it becomes awkward.
If your accent is holding you back from carrying on longer conversations then accent reduction training will be worth it for you. It’ll help you carry on more meaningful conversations and deepen the relationship you have with other people.
5. Improve Your Own Comprehension of the Language
When you learn the proper sounds of words, you’ll also improve your own listening skills. That’s because accent reduction also improves sound recognition in you. With better pronunciation, you’ll be able to recognize more sounds and words that you once had trouble understanding and that’s a win-win for all.
Improve Pronunciation, Improve Everything Else
When you improve pronunciation, you’ll improve all other aspects of your life in English. You’ll be able to perform better at your job, build deeper relationships, and overall, enjoy using the language much more.
If you’ve already mastered all the grammar rules and basic vocabularies, it would be a shame to not use the language due to an accent. Get started with us today and we’ll help you banish your fear of speaking English forever!