Accent Coach Bianca
If you use English for personal or professional purposes and you want to sound clear and feel confident, you're about to get the accent training you need!
If you're serious about your accent (or just curious), you have a choice to make. You can SIMPLY JUST fold the laundry/walk the dog/commute to work... OR... you can multitask by listening to me help you with your goal!
You get 4 kinds of episodes: 2 minute accent TIPS, 5 minute DRILLS and exercises, 10 minute TEACHING about an accent topic, 30 minute real 1:1 COACHING, and 45 minute MAGIC conversations with English Teachers, Learners, other Accent Coaches!
I'm known as the 'Accent Magician'. Listen to the show and be amazed at my tricks! As you listen, you'll quickly begin to realize that you can break down complex accent features into small, manageable parts that you can train every day for long-lasting change!
I'm here to help. I have a FREE Discord community for you to join. Come for Weekly Office Hours on Wednesdays for extra free help!
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Accent Coach Bianca- Where accent enthusiasts come for the strategies... and stay for the fun!
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- Update frequency
- every 12 days
- Average duration
- 46 minutes
- Episodes
- 72
- Years Active
- 2023 - 2025
Felippe's Consonant Clusters
This is what it's like to work with me.
Listen to Felippe's first live coaching session.
He knew he had a problem, but couldn't hear exactly what it was, so he came to me.
Felippe came with 2 words in …
Intrusive R in British Accents w/ Mark Dallas
Are you on "Team R" or on the "Non-rhoticity Team"? Do you pronounce your Rs in English?
I talk with Mark Byron Dallas, a dialect coach who I adore to learn more than I thought about the British Intru…
Auditory Processing Disorder w/ Lorraine Driscoll
I'm pretty sure I have APD. Does someone you love maybe have it too?
This special episode is in honor of Auditory Processing Awareness Day (April 4th, 2023)!
I ask 'what?' all the time, but by the tim…
Michelle Yeoh's Idiolect
In honor of Michelle Yeoh's 2023 Oscar for Best Actress (the first time it has been won by an Asian), I want to share with you how I listen to people's individual speech patters, or idiolects.
Specif…
Michele Yeoh's Accent and the 2023 Oscars
You're probably aware of the accent bias that snuck into the face recognition software. It wasn't that the AI was racist, it merely exposed that humans are. I think of the Hollywood language bias and…
4 Common Mistakes in Linking
These are 4 mistakes you might be making when you link your words in Connected Speech.
It may be because the sound is difficult to articulate because it isn't in your first language.
Or perhaps it is,…
Linking in Connected Speech
Linking is a very common way to Connect your Speech in English!
It's more difficult than Assimilating or Gliding because now we're going from a consonant to a vowel!
Even though some people confuse t…
Gliding Vowels in Connected Speech
Gliding is more common than Assimilation in Connected Speech, but a bit more difficult! Gliding is also more common than Assimilation, so you'll use this skill more often!
We define and review the dif…
Assimilation in Connected Speech
Assimilation is the easiest (yet rarest) of the 4 forms of Connected Speech!
Connected speech has evolved in English, and by rebracketing our words, we can connect our speech.
I demonstrate how assim…
2 groups: Grammar vs. Meaning in Syllable Stress
Here are 2 example groups where a change in syllable stress DOES equal a change in the language.
Sometimes stressing a different syllable tells us the part of speech the word is. For instance, OBject …
Deleted schwa syllables and choices in Syllable Stress
Do you ever hear the same word two different ways, with different numbers of syllables? For example, some people say 'different' with 3 syllables, and others with only 2. What's going on here? Langua…
Top 50 words in 5 patterns for great Syllable Stress
THESE are the words you NEED to get right in English, because you use them all the time. Maybe you're doing the stress right, but it wouldn't hurt to check!
Why these words? It's all about high freque…