{"id":33811,"date":"2012-11-21T17:53:41","date_gmt":"2012-11-21T16:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spanish.rberzal.com\/voice-training-the-secret-of-speaking-better-english\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T17:51:22","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T16:51:22","slug":"voice-training-the-secret-of-speaking-better-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spanish.rberzal.com\/es\/voice-training-the-secret-of-speaking-better-english\/","title":{"rendered":"Voice Training &#8211; The secret of speaking better English"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What makes up an accent?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Last Tuesday we have had the pleasure of hosting a dynamic Seminar at the Spanish Chamber premises; a <em>Voice Training<\/em> session conducted by voice &amp; communication skills coach, <strong>Ms. Dolly May<\/strong>, from <a href=\"https:\/\/spanish.en-desarrollo.net\/users\/LONDON-SCHOOL-ENGLISH\">The London School of English<\/a>, member of the Chamber.<\/p>\n<p>The seminar was aimed at Spaniards that wished to improve their English, and in particular, the clarity of their accent. Inversely however, the greatest lesson our attendees took from this master class was that your accent need not change in order to speak better English &#8211; and Ms. May made this point very clearly.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_818\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-818\" class=\"size-full wp-image-818\" title=\"Voice Training 001\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/spanish.en-desarrollo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/voice-training-001.jpg\" height=\"480\" width=\"640\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-818\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ms. Dolly May, accent coach from The London School of English<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Thus, this event has allowed our participants to discover the steps to achieve coherent oration through different exercises of improving ones diction. In an inclusive and fluid way, Ms. May showed the attendees how intonation, rhythm, melody and speed are the foundation of every accent. Some of the exercises consisted of identifying which words were \u201ckey\u201d within a sentence \u2013 emphasising them so as to pass on our intended message to the listener.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_820\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-820\" class=\"size-full wp-image-820\" title=\"Voice Training 006\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/spanish.en-desarrollo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/voice-training-006.jpg\" height=\"480\" width=\"640\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-820\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The seminar was broad &amp; dynamic, and attendees took an active part within the whole session by sharing their thoughts and asking some interesting questions.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Similarly, participants learnt that clarity and sharpness are both used to express our ideas in a way that makes our audience more engaged to the content of what we are saying, minimising the need for them to then stop and interpret in a way which ultimately becomes a hassle to both parties.<\/p>\n<p>In conclusion, this seminar was a great opportunity for our participants to develop their command over spoken English. The positive exchange of speaking techniques seems to have left everyone involved with a heightened sense of how to express personal &amp; professional oration.<\/p>\n<p>This has not been the first &#8211; and certainly will not be the last &#8211; of these sessions! We encourage you to keep an eye on our <a href=\"https:\/\/spanish.en-desarrollo.net\/Civic-Events\">UPCOMING EVENTS<\/a> section in our website, or to subscribe to our weekly newsletter, so as to be up to date with our activities!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What makes up an accent? Last Tuesday we have had the pleasure of hosting a dynamic Seminar at the Spanish Chamber premises; a Voice Training session conducted by voice &amp; communication skills coach, Ms. Dolly May, from The London School of English, member of the Chamber. The seminar was aimed at Spaniards that wished to improve their English, and in particular, the clarity of their accent. Inversely however, the greatest lesson our attendees took from this master class was that your accent need not change in order to speak better English &#8211; and Ms. May made this point very clearly. Thus, this event has allowed our participants to discover the steps to achieve coherent oration through different exercises of improving ones diction. In an inclusive and fluid way, Ms. May showed the attendees how intonation, rhythm, melody and speed are the foundation of every accent. Some of the exercises consisted of identifying which words were \u201ckey\u201d within a sentence \u2013 emphasising them so as to pass on our intended message to the listener. Similarly, participants learnt that clarity and sharpness are both used to express our ideas in a way that makes our audience more engaged to the content of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"<!-- wp:paragraph -->\r\n<p>Esta es una p\u00e1gina de ejemplo. Es diferente a una entrada del blog porque permanecer\u00e1 en un solo lugar y aparecer\u00e1 en la navegaci\u00f3n de tu sitio (en la mayor\u00eda de los temas). La mayor\u00eda de las personas comienzan con una p\u00e1gina \u00abAcerca de\u00bb que les presenta a los visitantes potenciales del sitio. Podr\u00edas decir algo as\u00ed:<\/p>\r\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\r\n\r\n<!-- wp:quote -->\r\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>\u00a1Hola! Soy camarero de d\u00eda, aspirante a actor de noche y esta es mi web. 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