Hey there, Gabriel, bravado here and welcome to my accent reduction course.
First off, I want to congratulate you on taking the first step towards bettering your future.
Together, we will take the journey towards mastering the American accent.
Now, if we're going to master something, we need to know its source, how it became, what it is today.
The American accent is a beautiful conglomeration of the different contributions immigrants to America
have given it over the years.
That's why there are so many variations of the American accent across the United States, from California
to the Midwest to New York and even Boston.
And they're so close.
What I teach is a neutralized across the board American accent.
It's what they teach national newscasters on, for example, FOX or CNN versus the regional newscasters
say, from Boston or Texas.
Now, as I said in the intro video, as a singing teacher, I was always blown away to hear my foreign
students sing standard American songs with no accent.
And as a kid, I remember listening to interviews of my favorite European bands talking away in these
interviews in Russian, German, Australian, British accents.
But when they sang their songs, there wasn't a hint of their accent at all.
I knew I was onto something.
So after years of research, I came up with a super simplified approach to accent reduction.
Before we get into it, let me give you a quick example.
If I were to say to you, for example, hey, happy birthday to you, your brain can possibly process
all that information coming at you at once.
When I visit my home country in Argentina and I speak American to my family, all they hear is ba ba
ba ba ba ba were they can't possibly process all that information at once.
So if I were to say to you again, hey, happy birthday to you, all we hear is I remember my world,
but if we slow it down and break it down one sound at a time like this, happy birthday to you.
Your brain is able to process each sound one by one.
It's coming at you one by one.
So take the singing out of the equation.
We have an E or A oh.
By slowing things down, we can identify and isolate and perfecta.
These what I call targeted sounds.
These are the very common sounds or vowel variations that come up constantly when speaking in an American
language.
So we need to perfect these sounds both physically and audibly.
Now, let me ask you something.
How many target sounds do you think there are?
Take a guess, 30, 40, 50, 80, 12.
That's right, 12, only 12 targeted sounds that we need to perfect both physically and audibly.
And a lot of my accent reduction students, they meet for the first time, say, but my speech therapist
teacher told me to study this book, which is this thick.
And when I took a look at it, I saw so many different variations, the y e sound and the w o sound
and the O sound.
You go bananas trying to figure out all of these formulas and sounds and soire this and soire that.
And even I was intimidated.
And I'm a native speaker.
Hear me out.
Give me a chance to simplify this for you.
It's a lot easier than you think.
It will take practice on your part, but don't worry, I'll guide you through it.
And by the end of this course, you will know exactly what to practice and how often to practice it.
Let's get started.