Acting : Webinar tomorrow!! Understanding Accents and Accent Reductions by Sydney Summers

Sydney Summers

Webinar tomorrow!! Understanding Accents and Accent Reductions

One of the essential qualities of being a great actor is the ability to transform. Having an array of accents at your finger tip allows you to play a much wider range of people and increases the number of roles you can be cast in. If you’re a foreign actor and want to work in the American market, being able to act with an American accent will dramatically increase your opportunities as an actor. And even just reducing your accent will make you more castable, and prepare you to do other foreign accents more easily and convincingly. And learning how to do all this is fun and fascinating!

The hardest part in learning an accent or reducing your accent is not learning the new sounds. It’s breaking the speech habits that you’ve had all your life, or that you’ve had for as long as you’ve been speaking English. We learn our first language as children, absorbing the sounds without any awareness of the process. But as adults the new sounds are competing for dominance with the old sounds. Luckily there is very cool science for breaking down and understanding the sounds, the mechanics of the sounds, the relationships between the sounds, and the nature and rules of stressing, rhythm and intonation, and a technique for rewiring your brain so you can speak these new sounds effortlessly while you are acting.

Learn all you need to know to understanding and eliminating the American accent!

Plus! Receive A guide to vowel and consonant sounds for Accents and Accent reduction!

Email edu@stage32.com with any questions!

Sign up link: https://www.stage32.com/education?p=9299838370099

Sydney Summers

Question from Olga Gabris: "Hi everyone, Olga here - a multi-lingual first-generation Russian immigrant who writes and produces dark psychological pieces about finding your place in the world. I don't have that classic "villain" accent but as a US resident of 16 years, still don't sound like a native. I've taken classes before and did apps like BoldVoice,.yet still would want to level up." Very much excited about this webinar and any tips/guides to improve my speaking chops!"

Olga Gabris

Correction: "...yet still would want to level up." Thank you!

Sydney Summers

No problem, I updated!

Sydney Summers

Looking forward to the webinar beginning shortly! Please put your questions below for John :)

Sydney Summers

Thank you to everyone who attended today, I really enjoyed the Q + A!

Sandra Isabel Correia

Thank You, Sydney :) I saw live yesterday and it was really helpful. Thank you. Now, I need to practice :)

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