Fluent English Speech

Make your English speech connected, fluent, and natural

This toolkit is based on 17 lessons from the second book in the series "Get Rid of your Accent". You can get the best of our lessons in one easy-to-use app that goes everywhere with you. Practice word pairs, amusing dialogues and colloquial expressions to sound like a native English speaker.

App Contents and Functionality

In the first part of "Fluent English Speech", we provide practical exercises for difficult speech patterns, such as word endings, consonant clusters, schwa, strong and weak forms of words.

The second part is devoted to connected speech patterns and helps you speak in phrases rather than separate words like beginners.

The third part deals with natural flow of speech, intonation and sentence stress. It will help you to make your speech easy and interesting to listen to.

Students can play audio tracks, listen, repeat, record themselves, and compare their pronunciation with the model.

This app will help you to:

• Becoming fluent in English

• Developing English intonation and sentence rhythm

• Learning and practising idioms and colloquial expressions to sound more like a native English speaker

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About the authors

Linda James (RAM, Dip. Ed., IPD, LRAM)

Linda trained at the Royal Academy of Music and qualified as a teacher of Speech and Drama. She also holds an International Phonetics Diploma from London University.

Linda has had extensive experience as a dialect coach in TV, films and the theatre. For more than 20 years she has worked as a Speech Tutor at several London drama colleges and privately, specialising in the teaching of Received Pronunciation (RP) and the eradication of accents.

Olga Smith (BA in Linguistics, MBA)

Olga holds a degree in Linguistics and an MBA from Nottingham University. She is also an advanced public speaker and a holder of the Toastmaster bronze reward.

Olga learned a unique drama school method for Accent Reduction from top British phonetician Linda James. They together co-authored the UK bestselling books, “Get Rid of your Accent”, Part One, Part Two and Part Three.