Accent Softening

Your course will include 6, 11 or 16 one-hour sessions depending on what floats your boat. Each course is fully bespoke, tailored around your goals and needs. You’ll also receive an amazing manual that can be used alongside your sessions and to practise at home! You will have the full support of your coach and the LSW Head Office team during your course, as well as an online portal where you can manage your sessions. (Note, our 6, 11 and 16 courses have a discounted taster session included in the price – book straight to course stress free with our money back guarantee).

Yes! We are not a cookie cutter with a one-size fits all approach. Our courses are made to fit you and never the other way round! The first step in personalising your journey with us is a Discovery Call with one of our incredible Client Success Managers so we can understand your ultimate communication goals and aspirations. From this we can recommend a coach that best fits your needs and then your coach will tailor your Taster Session and bespoke course.

Yes, if that is what suits your personal needs and will help you achieve your goals in the best way possible, then our coaches can certainly mix in elements of different courses for you. Our courses are totally bespoke, personalised and designed to fit you! We love to make our courses as unique as you are!

Our 6-session courses will cover all of the basics you need to transform your communication, but you need to make sure you’re putting in the practice alongside (practice definitely does make perfect!). Our 11-session courses allow for a bit more breathing space so that all tools can be explored more deeply as well as giving time for them to really sink in. Our 16-session courses allow you to really dive into the tools and techniques covered by the Serlin Method™ and give you ample opportunity to practise them with your coach and for everything to become second nature!
With that said, the amount of sessions our coaches recommend completely depends on your personal goals and your learning style. For Accent Softening, we recommend a minimum of 11 sessions so that you have enough time to cover all of the sounds in neutral spoken English with our amazing coaches. (Note, our 6, 11 and 16 courses have a discounted taster session included in the price – book straight to course stress free with our money back guarantee).

Our Accent Softening course is for non-native, fluent English speakers who feel their accent sometimes gets in the way of their communication. During the course you discover the specific ways your speech differs from neutral spoken English and locate sounds that your accent is holding tightly to. You will also work on your intonation in order to recreate the melody and rhythm of neutral English speech. We have worked with people from all over the world and are so proud that this course has helped build confidence in anyone who has taken it.

If you are a non-native speaker then please know that you don’t have to compromise your identity to have true ownership over the language, the aim is not to become accent free (or at least there is no need for that) the aim is to show through the way you speak that you know how to operate and utilise the language like a pro. Our clients find that working with us on Accent Softening helps them speak in a way that boosts their confidence by reducing mistakes and misunderstandings – we want you to get all your amazing ideas out there as clearly as possible. We believe it’s important to soften your accent only as much as you need to so that it doesn’t get in the way of your goals and your wellbeing – and this will always be different for everyone. After that, it’s about providing the support and tools to help you become the best communicator you can be. With our Accent Softening methodology we work with you on every sound that is leading to confusion, misunderstanding or blank looks, so that when you open your mouth to speak, your words come out as you intended and you are always putting your best self forward!

In this 60-minute session, your coach will give you the full rundown of every single sound of neutral spoken English and where you currently are in relation to that sound. You’ll also learn our really powerful Engagement Technique, which will transform your clarity and ability to engage using some very simple steps – the results from just using this tool are amazing! From there, your chosen coach will recommend a personalised 5, 10 or 15 session course plan for you depending on your goals – we want to make the course work for you and not the other way around! (Note, our 6, 11 and 16 courses have a discounted taster session included in the price – book straight to course stress free with our money back guarantee).