Tag: accents
How to Acquire an Accent
Accents – believe it or not – are not easy. Let’s face it, if you’ve spent 20, 30, 40 years using your head and facial muscles and your tongue to speak words in a particular way, and tuning your voice to go up and down in […]
Moving on Again!
Knight-Thompson Speechworks training was Intense, with an intentional Capital I. Three weeks of immersion in the mechanics of speech and accents was thrilling, exhausting and deeply satisfying. I was surrounded by enormously talented individuals, all with unique styles of delivery when it […]
Knight-Thompson Speechworks Rocks My World
Two weeks training in Knight-Thompson Speech and Accents was intense, challenging and unbelievably satisfying. I feel like a newly repotted plant, a bit wobbly above ground, checking out how much room my roots now have to spread out into, and seeing the […]
Real and Virtual Travel Adventures
I’ve just returned from a 3 days trip to Sydney, the first time I’ve been there for quite a few years. It came about because of an invitation to run two workshops for the NSW Speech and Drama Association‘s annual seminar. They wanted to sample […]
The Expressive Voice Workshop went down a treat last weekend. 8 participants from a great range of work and life experience joined in to fill the back room at 81 Renshaw with joyously wacky soundings, finding vibratory freedom in the Hungry Giant’s […]
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Tagged accents, acting, archetypes, presentation skills, public speaking