How to Get Rid of Accent? | Accent Improvement

Everyone has effect of there motherland culture. This effect is seen in their speaking. It is not much bad having native accent on your speech but sometimes it gives bad impact on listener. Many people want to change their accent tone for variety of reasons. Different methods are available to get rid of an accent you can apply any of them.

Reasons to Change an Accent

1. Most of the time high chances of rejection at job interview are possible if accent presence in your speaking is possible.
   
2. For success good accent of your voice is must.
   
3. For business presentation, meetings, project demonstration having beautiful accent gives excellent impression on listener.

Changing Regional Accent

• First record your voice when you are reading or speaking to someone.
  
• Second step is listen carefully your recorded voice.
  
• Concentrate on words and characteristics where you give stress, elongate or clip vowels.
  
• Slow down speed of speaking because if you are speaking speedily then it is difficult to control your accent.
  
• Listen speaking of TV anchors and news reporters because they are specially trained and there is no regional accent present in their speaking.
  
• Constantly record your talking and keep close watch on your speech improvements so that you can judge your improvement.
  

Various ways to get rid of an Accent

1. Choose accent which is suitable for you and which is beneficial for you in your future.
   
2. Don’t feel shy and afraid for speaking even it goes wrong or mistaken for first time.
   
3. Take a help of native speaker so that live training will help much more than listening instruction videos.
   
4. Keep the speed of your speaking slow so that you can improve your pronunciation.
   
5. Keep speaking continuously with native speaker and with the people who are excellent in their accent.
   
6. Listen speaking of program anchors or news readers carefully.
   
7. Read dictionary, poem or tongue-twister for better improvement of accent.
   
8. Take help of family members or friends for accent improvement. Invite them to join you because most of the time you spend in them only.