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Tuesday, April 20, 2010

American Accent Guide

Are you finding it hard to land your dream job because of your accent?

When you speak in English, do native English speakers find it hard to understand what you’re saying?

Do you always end up getting rejected when applying for call center jobs, because of your strong accent?

If all your answers to these questions is yes, then read on.

Here is an easy American Accent guide on how you could have that long sought for American accent to land that dream job!

Since call center agents cater to whole world as their clients, the comprehensibility of their words is essential to be able to answer correctly their customers’ queries clearly and be able to help them in product problems. If you have a strong accent and speaks too fast, sometimes with a certain distinct intonation, clients will find it hard to understand them and sometimes would even cause misunderstandings and conflicts.

This is what we are avoiding, so having a neutral accent, or at best, an American accent is important especially in this line of job.

The first key to having an American accent is proper pronunciation of words. Due to proper pronunciation, you will avoid sounding garbled or as if you’re eating up your words.

Another key in this guide on having an American accent is voice production, intonation and rhythm. Here, we make sure that your voice is clearly heard by the clients. If you speak too soft, or too fast, or with certain intonations, this would affect how your voice is heard on the other end of the line.

You should speak only in moderate speed, so the client can take note of what you’re saying, and at the same time, avoid your words sounding like as if it was jumbled.

Lastly and most importantly, practice. The most important key in this guide on having an American accent, is being an active listener and at the same time, learning to practice. Being an active listener means, paying attention to what the other speaker says – in this case, a native English speaker. By listening carefully to how they pronounce and utter words, including their intonation and rhythm, you can take note of this and try to copy how they do it when you practice. The best way on how to successfully have that American accent is by following how the native speakers do it.

By following this easy guide, you can successfully have that American accent that’ll fix your career problems. You can now take advantage of new and greater job opportunities!

p/s : You could make it just right =)
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1 comment:

  1. yeah, and listen to American musics and watch American programs too.

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