How to Transform your Spanish Accent to Sound like a Native English Speaker
Principal Coach Jamie Chapman gives his insights working with Spanish speakers who wish to soften their Spanish accents whilst speaking in English. Read on for some useful tips if you are Spanish on...
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7 Black Innovators You Should Learn From
The current Black Lives Matter movement and protests in America and indeed across the world have impacted so many people, and spurred reflections on what is and what is not okay in today's modern...
Life In Lockdown: I'm nervous on camera but led daily vocal warm-ups on Zoom for 30 days
I’ve always enjoyed vocal warm ups. My favourite class at drama school was voice, partly because I seemed to be quite good at these classes, and partly because I always felt so good afterwards. They...
How to Manage Uncertainty in the Virtual Workplace
Our working lives have been evolving for a while now, but the global pandemic has led to a radical change, and a scale of uncertainty that many of us have never experienced before. Working entirely...
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Why you shouldn’t feel guilty for wanting to reduce your native accent.
Should non-native English speakers drop, change or soften their accents? Your first instinct may be an indignant “of course not!” And in a way, we agree. But as with many things in life that seem...
Creating connections in an increasingly virtual world
Remote working has been on the rise for some time with people asking for more flexible employment options - and with the current lockdown forcing most of us to become acquainted with virtual...
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Set-up for success: the best home office environment for virtual communication
We’ve all been on conference calls that have been less than perfect - crackly lines, disappearing hosts, background interference and blurry screens, to name a few! During the current lockdown...
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Productive ways to keep yourself busy in self-isolation
The current lockdown situation might be limiting our movements for the next few months, but let's not let it limit our minds. Here are some ideas for you and please feel free to comment with any...
What is our approach during this time of disruption?
There is no doubting this is one of the oddest and in many ways most alarming times most of us have experienced. But as a resolutely positive person, I am fully committed to finding the positives and...