ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION COURSE FOR Bulgarian SPEAKERS

For most Bulgarian speakers, improving word stress (which is the stress, emphasis and rhythm of their English) is very important. Many use word stress that is too flat and even, or they put the word stress on the wrong syllable in some words. This makes some of their pronunciation unclear. 

Pronouncing English vowel sounds correctly is another areas that is often challenging for Bulgarian speakers. Bulgarian has far fewer vowels than English. So pronouncing some of the vowel sounds, particularly, long and double / diphthong English vowels, correctly is challenging. For example, a Bulgarian speaker is likely to have some difficulty clearly distinguishing between the vowels in the words ‘not’, ‘nought’ and ‘note’. 

For some speakers, pronouncing some English consonant sounds is challenging too, such as ‘th’, /w/, using ‘ed’ regular past tense endings and some sounds are a little different in English such as ‘h’ and ‘r’.  

You might be wondering if this English pronunciation program is also accent reduction or accent neutralisation for Bulgarian speakers? Yes, it is. This course will help you successfully reduce your accent for clearer English. Find out more about why Georgie thinks we should stop using the term accent reduction. Many people still search for the terms accent reduction, accent modification and accent neutralisation.

Some Bulgarian speakers want an accent reduction course to speak clearer English because sometimes listeners find their English unclear or they lack confidence with their English pronunciation. Some Bulgarian speakers want to reduce their Bulgarian accent to sound more like an English native speaker. People often want to do this if they have been living in an English speaking country for a long time and plan to stay. They feel like a local – so they want to sound more like a local too. A Speech Active course helps them sound more like a native English speaker.