Improve your English pronunciation with personalized accent training from an experienced English accent coach and native English-speaking trainer. Work on the sounds, stress, rhythm, and intonation that influence how clear and natural your English sounds.
Whether you want to reduce your accent, develop a British or American accent, or simply speak more clearly in international settings, your training is tailored to your voice, language background, and goals.
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English spelling and pronunciation do not always match. The language has developed through influences from many other languages, and its spelling often reflects that history. As a result, it is not always possible to know how a word is pronounced simply by looking at it.
Your first language also influences the way you speak English. Some English sounds, stress patterns, and rhythm may not exist in your own language, so your mouth and ear have to learn new patterns.
Accent training helps you notice these patterns and practise them deliberately. Over time, you can improve pronunciation, rhythm, stress, and intonation so that your English becomes easier to understand and feels more comfortable to speak.
Your course focuses on the aspects of pronunciation and spoken English that matter most for you. Depending on your goals, you may work on:
Your trainer helps you identify which changes will make the greatest difference and gives you focused practice, feedback, and strategies you can continue using outside the sessions.
At The English Center, your accent training is completely tailored to you. You work one-to-one with an experienced native English-speaking trainer on the pronunciation patterns that have the greatest impact on your clarity, confidence, and natural spoken English.
Your trainer will identify the sounds, stress patterns, rhythm, and intonation that are most relevant to you and build the training around your language background, professional situations, and goals. You may want to reduce features of your native accent, develop a more British or American accent, or simply speak English more clearly and in a way that makes you easier to understand.
The length and focus of your course depend on your starting point and what you want to achieve.
Choose the format and location that suit you best. Training is always live, private, and tailored to your pronunciation, accent, and communication goals.
Need an authentic American or British accent for a role, audition, voiceover, or performance? Our private accent and dialect coaching helps actors develop the specific pronunciation, rhythm, intonation, and speech patterns their work requires.
Coaching can focus on a particular accent or dialect, reducing features of your own accent, preparing a script or audition, or maintaining a consistent accent throughout a performance. Training is tailored to the role, your starting point, and the time available.
The English Center founder Brenda de Jong-Pauley has worked as a dialect coach for film and television in the Netherlands, with credits listed on IMDb. She has coached Dutch and international actors, including Gouden Kalf winners. Other English Center trainers also bring experience in acting and voiceover work. Contact us to discuss accent or dialect coaching for your project.
Book a free online intake with a native English-speaking trainer or contact us for more information. We usually respond within one working day. During the intake, we discuss your pronunciation, accent, goals, and the best way to structure your training.
Training is available in person in Amsterdam, Amstelveen, The Hague, and Hoofddorp, as well as online throughout Europe. In-company and hybrid training are also possible. Online sessions are live with your trainer via Zoom, Google Meet, or Teams.
Our most popular private course is 12 hours, but the right amount depends on your starting point and goals. Some clients want to improve overall pronunciation and speaking habits, while others need focused work on a particular sound, accent, presentation, audition, or professional situation. We discuss this during the intake.
Yes. All our trainers are native English speakers. Depending on your goals, you can work toward a British or American accent, or focus more broadly on clearer, more natural international English.
An English accent coach helps you identify the pronunciation patterns that influence how you sound in English and gives you targeted practice and feedback. Depending on your goals, you may work on individual sounds, stress, rhythm, intonation, accent reduction, or developing a British or American accent.
Accent training is suitable for professionals and other advanced English users who want to improve pronunciation, clarity, rhythm, stress, or intonation. Training is completely personalized and can also focus on accent reduction or developing a particular English accent.
Yes. Many clients come to us specifically because they want to reduce features of their first-language accent. The goal does not have to be to eliminate your accent completely. You can focus on the features that most affect intelligibility, naturalness, or the way you want to sound.
Yes. Training can focus on British or American English, depending on your preference and goals. For actors and performers, we can also work more specifically on the accent or dialect required for a role.
Yes. Accent training is primarily one-to-one, which allows your trainer to focus closely on your individual pronunciation patterns and give detailed feedback and practice.
Book a free online intake with one of our native English-speaking trainers. We’ll discuss your goals, listen to what you want to improve, and advise you on the right focus and course length.
You can speak with us in Dutch or English.
Prefer to call? Reach us on +31 (0)20 823 0569.
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