ESTABLISHED IN LONDON - 2006 - TRUSTED WORLDWIDE
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Accent reduction, elocution lessons based on Received Pronunciation, public speaking skills training for international professionals - books, apps, courses & personal coaching
OUR RESOURCES
Get Rid of Your Accent - Part One & Get Rid of Your Accent - Part Two
The best-selling core content. Covers all RP sounds, connected speech patterns, and intonation. Includes British idioms and vocal delivery techniques.
Get Rid of Your Accent for Business - Part Three
Tailored for working professionals. Business vocabulary. Formal register, meeting language, and presentation delivery in Received Pronunciation
Get Rid of Your Accent for Beginners
The ideal starting point. Contains essential English vocabulaty. Designed for all, and very useful for beginners and children
Get Rid of Your Accent Part One & Two - General American Speech Training Manual
Covers all sounds of General American English, intonation, connected speech patterns and fluency exercises
Meet the authors
In 2004, I, Olga Smith, was looking for an elocution tutor. My American husband could not understand some of the words I was saying. I felt my foreign accent was a nuisance for me and others.
After a long and difficult search and failed attempts with numerous "elocution tutors”, I found Linda James, a qualified phonetician with 20+ years of teaching speech in London drama schools and accent reduction to international professionals. From the very first lesson, I fell in love with Linda's teaching method and could see the progress straight away.
In 2006, I told Linda I wanted to write a book based on her method and asked her to co-author it. I wanted to make Linda's fantastic lessons available to a wide audience. This is how the international bestselling book Get Rid of Your Accent, Part One was born.
Linda and I later co-authored Parts Two - Advanced Level and Three - for Business, and our most recent book is Get Rid of Your Accent for Beginners.
All our books have been converted into iOS and Android apps by developer Yury Kravchenko. Yury himself had a strong Russian accent, and his elocution tutor recommended our book. He fell in love with it and proposed turning the entire series into apps.
Linda James (RAM, Dip. Ed., IPD, LRAM)
A trained phonetician and actress with over 25 years of experience teaching RP and accent reduction to international professionals. She brings her proven method and expertise to the apps, books, and video courses in the Get Rid of Your Accent series
Olga Smith (BA Linguistics, MBA)
Linguist, public speaker, and co-author of the best-selling “Get Rid of Your Accent” series. Having overcome her own accent, Olga brings practical expertise to learners worldwide
What teachers say about our books:
“Linda and Olga, authors of the books, have been conducting workshops for teachers and students in many colleges that teach English as a foreign language. Books and apps are invaluable resources for them.”
"Clearly, the authors of the book have collected years of experience and expertise to create this practical and effective tool for speech study."
Joe Windley, Head of Speech, Central School of Speech and Drama, London
Accent Reduction Workshop in the Russian Embassy in London