Reduce your accent fast with a 6 week literary themed pronunciation course using extracts from the six novels by Jane Austen
Highlights
- Join this course to reduce your accent when speaking in English
- 6 hours of live classes to work on your sounds, intonation & connected speech
- Practice with extracts from the six Jane Austen novels to develop a neutral accent
- Correction by your native speaker English teacher for accent reduction
Reduce your accent in this 6 hour English pronunciation course with a Jane Austen literature theme. Each week you learn about a particular aspect of pronunciation, practice it in the session and at home - with a native speaker model to compare with. Improve specific areas of phonology - sounds, word stress, sentence stress, rhythm, linking. Personalised feedback improves your accent, intelligibility and accuracy.
The "Speak Like Jane Austen" Course
This is a 6 week course, structured so that you practise pronunciation using a different Jane Austen novel - and a different heroine each week:
Week 1: Northanger Abbey - Catherine Morland
Week 2: Sense and Sensibility - Marianne and Elinor
Week 3: Pride and Prejudice - Elizabeth Bennett
Week 4: Mansfield Park - Fanny Price
Week 5: Emma - Emma Woodhouse
Week 6: Persuasion - Anne Elliot
Each week one student will plan to give a presentation about the heroine of that week's novel. In addition, in each session every student will:
- give a micro presentation (1 minute) about "Jane Austen and Me" - for example - "my favourite Jane Austen novel"
- read extracts out loud from a different Jane Austen novel each week
- learn about and practise one of the core areas below:
The essential features of English phonology - weak forms, linking, the, a/an
Making sounds: vowels and diphthongs
Making sounds: consonants and consonant clusters
Intonation and sentence stress - types of question, emphasising, conveying meaning
Word stress - word stress families
Silent letters, homophones and homographs
Geoff says:
"This is a great way to reduce your accent, becoming more intelligible, clearer and more international in your use of English - while discussing Jane Austen!"
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Age | 16+ |
Online class size | Maximum 6 participants, on Zoom. |
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