Video Tips

Today we are talking about expressing ourselves in English and using emotional words in English. Now, if English is your second language you will...

How To Pronounce The English Plosive Consonants

Are you ready to learn English pronunciation and elevate your speaking confidence? Today we’re going to start a 5 part series on consonants. Over...

How To Pronounce The Months of the Year

Did you ever wonder if you are saying the months of the year correctly? Well this tutorial will take you closer to working through how to pronounce...

How To Pronounce Medical Words

Did you ever find yourself stumbling over a long complex medical word when speaking with a patient? It’s embarrassing and stressful manouvering our...

5 Keystone Principles You Need to Know To Learn English Vowels

Vowel sounds have intrigued me for most of my life because they are my stepping stones as an opera singer and also my main source of income as a...

How to Practise English Speaking At Home Using Our High Voltage Drill Framework Resource

If I got a dollar for how many times my pronunciation clients have asked me how to practise their English speaking goals effectively at home I’d...

How To Learn English Consonants Effectively

Before you start working on improving your English Consonants there is some important information you need to know. This tutorial will prepare you...

Improve Your Communication with Online Pronunciation Training

You’ve all heard the Madonna song, “You know that we are living in the digital world, and we are all digital girls…” We may have taken a little...

Improve your Speaking with Pronunciation Goals

There isn't a Personal Blueprint ...for your communication success unless you make it! So much hangs in the balance the moment you open your mouth...

5 Important Sounds in Standard Australian English

We are one foot in Modern Multi-lingual Australia and one foot in old fashioned, Australia where apparently everyone speaks the same type of...

Why Your Fake French Accent is Probably Terrible.

How's your fake French Accent? If it's pretty terrible, maybe you are not musical enough. Researchers in Austria and Britain say your ability to...

So where’s your accent from?

So much is at stake when you communicate. When arriving to a new country, mastering the ability to interact with locals becomes paramount. There is...

How to Improve your PTE Academic Oral Fluency

Getting your required score in the PTE Academic exam can be very stressful and you may be struggling because you don't know how to improve your PTE...

Thai Accent Reduction Tips

How to Reduce your Thai Accent Make a Query The first step to clear English speech is to make sure you have a complete sound set for English. So...

Japanese Accent Reduction Tips

There are lots of differences between Japanese speech patterns and English pronunciation. If you are a Japanese native speaker looking for ideas...

Arabic Accent Reduction Tips

With as many as 206,000,000 native speakers, Arabic ranks as the fifth most common language spoken globally. Regardless of its dominance globally as...

Bulgarian Accent Reduction Tips

Bulgarian native speakers have often had the luxury of exposure to several languages of their region- Turkish, Greek, Macedonian and even some...

Russian Accent Reduction Tips

Mastering English as a Russian native speaker is no small task. Not only is there a different alphabet to deal with, but the variation in the sounds...

Do these 6 things to improve your PTE Pronunciation Score

PTE Pronunciation Scores play a massive role in achieving your needed score in the PTE Academic exam. It can be very stressful if you don't know how...

Urdu Accent Reduction Tips

With some 64 million native speakers worldwide, Urdu is one of the 20 most common languages spoken globally. Classed as the national language of...

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Communication & Voice Tips

The Cure to your Word Finding Difficulty

“It’s right on the tip of my tongue! What’s that word?” Aaagghh, don’t you hate it when this happens? It’s always at the most inappropriate time and...

How To Express Yourself in English

Today we are talking about expressing ourselves in English and using emotional words in English. Now, if English is your second language you will...

4 Clever Tips For Bilingualism and Stuttering

There is a lot to think about when it comes to bilingualism and stuttering. If you are learning or speaking a second language and you also stutter...

Can You Fix Your Lisp As An Adult?

We have been asked this question so much that we felt it was time to write a blog post about the topic. If you have wondered whether it is too late...

How Our Speech Pathologists Work on Social Communication for Adults with Autism

You may be new to trying to understand autism. Or have been in the game for a while. Either way, getting your head around the large amounts of...

How to Deliver Engaging Online Meetings

24th of March, 2020 It’s been an intense week for business owners and bosses as we all navigate a totally virtual space. I've tried to take a growth...

Teachers, What’s Your Vocal IQ?

The school year is off to a flying start and it's time to consider vocal health for teachers! As the year flies by, let's have a moment to reflect...

Stuttering Therapy Techniques & Naturalness

Are you a person who stutters? Have you learnt your smooth speech techniques but something still doesn't feel or sound, right? And because of this,...

Women In Power: How To Talk To Get What You Want

Wouldn’t it be great if a female’s voice was taken just as seriously as a males - in all circumstances? Don’t get us wrong, we’re getting louder....

Improve your Speaking with Pronunciation Goals

There isn't a Personal Blueprint ...for your communication success unless you make it! So much hangs in the balance the moment you open your mouth...

What I wish I Knew as a Young Singer: Collaboration with Kristie from A Tempo Voice Centre

This blog post is the culmination of a week long cross continental performer voice collaboration between Speech Pathologist Singing Voice...

All I want for Christmas is… a healthy singing voice

Christmas is such a wonderful time of year. For some, work is beginning to wind down, and you can see yourself relaxing on a beach with a mojito or...

Improving English Speaking: Should you choose Elocution Sessions or Accent Reduction Sessions?

Looking to improve English speaking skills for yourself or your team? Perhaps you want to sound more confident, command the room, or stop having to...

5 Important Sounds in Standard Australian English

We are one foot in Modern Multi-lingual Australia and one foot in old fashioned, Australia where apparently everyone speaks the same type of...

Accents in the Workplace

Or, simply - Someone who sounds different to you. Accents in the workplace should not be a set back. In fact, does this even beg to question? Not to...

Create Habits That Go The Distance

Creating Habits that Go the Distance This is the second part of our 2-part Series on Goal Setting & Habit Tracking “You need to put what...

Create Insanely Powerful Communication Goals

Communication Goals: Goal Setting & Habit Tracking - Part 1 “Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.” – Tony...

What’s On Your Fork And How You Talk

Factor 5 - Nutrition & Your Communication This is the fifth part of our 5-part Series on 5 factors That Will impact Your Communication...

Nerves, Anxiety, Stress And Your Communication