ClearSpeak's English pronunciation for PORTUGUESE accents

Achieve polished British pronunciation with the renowned ClearSpeak Method. Ideal for IELTS and those on a career path.

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English
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24
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17 hours
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Mar 2024
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$49.99
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What you will learn

Appear professional and polished to English speakers at work and play

Make every consonant and vowel precisely with professional speech therapy techniques

Achieve a fluent English accent by changing the overall holding posture of your mouth

Be understood clearly anywhere in the world with a Neutral Standard English accent

Description

What you get

Is your first accent of Portuguese origin? This course is designed specifically to target your problem sounds. It’s one of the ClearSpeak Time-Online Series tailored for different accent groups.

  • You get a complete package for both clear pronunciation and fluent neutral British English accent

  • Your tutor is speech pathologist Alison ‘Kimi’ Kimble, an authority in English accent change

  • Take the complete 15 Unit course OR study only a few problem sounds

  • You’ll find around 14 hours of demo videos and loads of audio exercises along with many support articles

The ClearSpeak Method is a leader in the accent change field. It’s easy to get results with the professional speech pathology techniques.

Your voice coach

Hi

I’m Kimi Kimble, your professional tutor and voice coach for your speech journey.

If unclear speech is holding you back in your studies or career, then a Time-Online course is definitely for you. Our courses are for ‘committed’ students who may have tried other approaches and found they don’t produce a true or lasting result. There are no quick fixes!

Pronunciation and accent change are a skill

Like learning to play the piano, you cannot hope to master these by watching a series of short video clips. It takes much more to be able to think and pronounce fluently at the same time.

The professional ClearSpeak Method

Time-Online courses are based on the ClearSpeak Method developed over 25 years. Used in many universities internationally, professional speech therapy techniques set this course apart from others. It will give you your best shot at achieving a superior result.

Use fun techniques to learn

I’ll be guiding you every step of the way through many hours of masterclass videos and ‘listen-and-repeat’ exercises. You’ll be using lots of intuitive visualisations along with instructions about how to move your mouth into the correct position. Simply ‘telling’ you what to do, and asking you to mimic me, are never enough.

Accent change is not just about learning separate sounds

Whole accent change has three quite different aspects and all are essential:

  • FIRST you learn to make each new sound, one at a time.

  • SECOND you change the overall holding posture of your mouth as you speak. All your sounds are placed within this posture.

    This method is used by professional mimics to create a consistent and fluent accent. There is no other way. Your mouth must ‘feel’ it is operating quite differently when you change from one accent to another. Most pronunciation courses make no mention of this critical step.

  • THIRD you tune in to the speech melody of the English speech flow.

    This is quite different to learning about intonation and stress within individual sentences. The Time-Online texts encourage you to mimic the overall rhythmic melody, regardless of the words or sentences used in your speech flow.


So, take a look at the outline that follows to learn more. I’ll be delighted to have your company if you decide to join me.

All the best for now!

Your tutor,

Kimi


“The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step”. LAO TZU


How a course works

The course is by self-study online.

In the Start Up Unit you will:

Discover all about English sounds and the ClearSpeak techniques

Decide on your course Plan

  • The Typical List of Errors for your accent group has the 15 most common consonant and vowel errors relative to English

  • Study the entire List if your aim is overall accent change  OR  Select only a few problem sounds

Then move on to study each sound on your Plan. There is a Sound Kit Unit of study materials for each one.

All 15 Sound Kits have

  • A one-hour Masterclass video or a Tutorial video. Kimi demonstrates how real students achieve success with the ClearSpeak techniques.

  • A Sound Guide giving you instructions on how to make the sound

  • Articles on key issues or challenges in making the sound

  • Up to one hour of custom-designed ‘listen and repeat’ audio exercises supported by text with words, phrases, sentences and story text

  • A set of Advanced Exercises for problem issues, such as confusion between similar sounds

  • A Review Text for evaluating your progress as you learn

  • A completion token for each Sound Kit Unit

Content

START UP UNIT - Part 1 Your plan and study materials

Time for Liftoff!
Sound errors for your course
Learning techniques and tools
Add speech melody for your final result

START UP UNIT - Part 2 Stop Consonants as the foundation of English clarity

Why Stops are so important in English
Review of study materials and learning techniques

Sound Kits for Portuguese accents

SKC01 Sound Kit for Stop Consonants /p-b/ /t-d/ /k-g/
SKC20 Final /m/ & /n/ ham, been
SKC13 /ŋ/ ring
SKC10 /r/ red
SKC04 /θ/ & /ð/ thin, that
SKV21 /a/ park
SKV20 /æ/ hat
SKV19 /e/ bed
SKV27 /ɒ/ hot
SKV17 /i/ feet
SKV32 /eɪ/ gate
SKV23 /з/ bird
SKV24 /u/ food
SKV33 /oʊ/ low
SKV26 /ɔ/ sauce

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Reviews

Jair
January 15, 2022
Alison Kimi Kimble's pronunciation course went above and beyond my expectations for a fantastic pronunciation course. The instructor will expertly guide you through each session. Alison is the creator of ClearSpeak Method, a pioneer in accent reduction, as well as a world-renowned speech-language pathologist who specializes in reducing English accents. Not to mention, she has published “Perfect Pronunciation”, the most comprehensive, practical, and revolutionary book on pronunciation, accent, prosody, and so forth. I am a Brazilian English professor with a Master's degree in English Applied Linguistics. I've been working on pronunciation for almost forty years and my primary fields of research were phonology and interphonology in language learning. To help Brazilian EFL (English as a Foreign Language) students improve their pronunciation, I use phonetics and phonology as a tool. While I acquired American English at the age of seven, I've always loved the sounds of the standard British accent, formerly known as RP (Received Pronunciation), especially when listening to BBC or UK voice actors. As a result, I worked my way through the script to emulate a neutral British accent. However, I felt I needed to take a step forward to perfect RP–Alison's course came in handy. Over the last 10 years, I’ve tried so many courses on British RP, but only this one made the difference. If you speak Portuguese as a native language and love hearing the usual British accent, the instructor has prepared this course for you. But what are the advantages of taking this course? Was your English accent affected by the Portuguese language at first? If that's the case, Alison has produced an Udemy course to remedy your sound issues. The course covers 14 hours of sample recording and audio sessions, so you may study the complete 15-unit course or just a few problematic sounds. What aspect of the video sessions did I like the most? I loved when the instructor dives into the nitty-gritty of sound articulation and proposes basic strategies for generating the sounds, both alone and in context. As a result, we must remember that in a linked speech, the tongue moves economically to produce sounds. Look at the /th/ sound session, for example. Because the /th/ sound does not exist in the Portuguese phonetic inventory, it is one of the hardest sounds for Brazilian EFL students learning English. As a result, Alison has debunked the belief that you must push your tongue between your teeth to make this sound, as most YouTube videos show. Once you've mastered the coach's guidelines, you'll be surprised at how simple and wonderful this and other sounds will be.

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