"What do I tutor?

Accent reduction. I have taught General American pronunciation to speakers of twenty-one of the world's forty most spoken languages, some smaller languages like Belarusian, Catalan, Maghrebi Arabic, Hebrew, Kyrgyz, Malayalam, Polish, and Swedish, and other dialects of English.

Dialect coaching. I teach actors to speak a General American accent and several others. Ask me about the accent you're interested in.

Lyric diction. I have given seminars and written IPA transcriptions for choirs singing in Ecclesiastical Latin, Middle English, French, Czech, and Slovak. I have given private lyric diction tutoring for individual singers in English (both General American and Received Pronunciation), Italian, French, German, Russian, Czech, Slovak, Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish, Old Spanish, German Latin, Tagalog, and several others.

Phonetics and phonology. I have done monolingual fieldwork demonstrations working with languages that have no writing system yet. I teach university students phonetics and phonology regardless of field of study. I provide feedback on broad and narrow phonetic transcriptions.

How am I as a tutor?

I am gentle and considerate of my students' feelings while also pushing them to achieve their goals. I provide balanced and honest feedback so that my students know how to practice and move forward. I enjoy being patient and finding creative and clear ways to explain or practice a new skill or concept. Let me know how I can continue to be a better tutor." less...