Felippe's Consonant Clusters

Accent Coach Bianca

This is what it's like to work with me.

Listen to Felippe's first live coaching session.

He knew he had a problem, but couldn't hear exactly what it was, so he came to me.

Felippe came with 2 words in mind, 'world' and 'favorited', and added a third, 'throughout'.

Felippe was having trouble with his consonant clusters. His tongue had a hard time transitioning from the American R, to the dark L, to the D sound quickly and accurately.

We work on a variety of consonant clusters that can be tricky.

You have to coordinate your tongue, teeth, lips, jaw, and vocal folds!

We also worked on voicing sounds and getting an explosive amount of air out.

/n/ vs /ŋ/

Lip rounding sabotaging some sounds.

Maybe it's not Felippe, but it's just English that's difficult!

I review a list of other words for Feilppe to pay attention to, like 'virtual', and 'software'.

I teach Felippe a simple and effective technique called 'rebracketing', which helps with connected speech in English!

-ED and -S endings on words are common AND tricky! Repetition and drilling these words is key, and I have a resource for you that will make life easier!

Filippe slows down and gets control of what he's saying and knows exactly what he's supposed to do.

He also thought about the most impactful words for him, as opposed to the most frequent words in all of English.

Felippe, and you too, are welcome to join my weekly Office Hours on my Discord server, Master an American Accent.