Learn the Consonants of American English: how to make them, how to distinguish them, and how to practice using them.
Finance & Accounting Professionals need to communicate in English on a daily basis, and if you work with the US or live and work in the US, it’s important that everyone understand you clearly. It can hurt your credibility, confidence, and ability to do your job if people either misunderstand you or misinterpret what you say. In order to be clear in American English, you’ll want to master the key components of the language.
Now that you have completed the first two courses in this series, the Vowels of American English and Comparative Contrasts in Usage with the Vowels of American English, you are ready to learn the Consonants of American English: how to make them, how to distinguish them, and how to practice using them.
This course focuses on discovering which of the 25 spoken consonants of American English are most challenging for you and creating meaningful ways to assess yourself and address the challenges. Depending on your first language, you may struggle with different consonants than someone else does, and you’ll need a reliable method to figure this out and create a way to practice on a regular basis so you can enact and sustain real change.
This course also uses finance & accounting vocabulary so that when you learn the concepts of English, you’ll also learn to say the words that come up for you every day at work.
Field of Study: Specialized Knowledge
Speech, Voice, Accent & Executive Presence Coach
A Speech, Voice, Accent & Presence Coach for the last 20 years, Rebecca Linquist has coached, mentored, and taught classes to hundreds of non-native speakers of American English worldwide, as well as helped professionals and executives polish their presence, learning to articulate with clarity & confidence using her systematic correction techniques and guides she has developed to help clients master the intricacies of communication in an accelerated fashion.
