Women Inspired

Christi Barb, founder of Adastra Speech, is a speech and language coach for people who speak English with an accent that makes it difficult to be understood clearly. Combining speech-language pathology methods with her understanding of how languages affect speech from her experience teaching English as a second language, Christi is a specialist in analyzing what contributes to being "easy to understand". Listen in to this episode of Women Inspired where you will hear: What defines an "accent" and why we all have one What makes some foreign accents more difficult for American English listeners to understand than others Methods for making changes to your accent Examples of successful speakers who "gained an accent" in order to be understood To learn more about Adastra speech, go to https://www.facebook.com/adastraspeech Full show notes