Gerda — Accent Reduction for Indian English Speakers

What you’ll master — Outcomes you can use

1. They deliver a five-minute update with no requests to repeat

Your tutor

An intelligibility coach who has worked with Indian engineering and support teams for years and can hear which sound cost the listener the word.

Respectful · Warm · Not sounding American

The plan — What’s inside

1. Diagnosing Which Words Get Missed
2. The V and W Distinction
3. Retroflex Versus Alveolar T and D
4. Th in Think and This
5. Word Stress on Long Technical Terms
6. Content-Word Stress and Sentence Rhythm
7. Speed and Pausing on Calls
8. Rehearsing a Stand-Up and a Client Update

8 parts

Questions about this course

Why do Americans keep asking me to repeat myself on work calls?

Accent reduction for Indian English speakers, taught 1:1 towards being understood on calls rather than sounding American. Eight weeks on V and W, retroflex T and D and word stress, ending when you give a five-minute update and nobody asks you to repeat.