Late last week, Fox News Latino announced that one of Adri­ana Lima’s goals for 2012 was to work with an accent reduc­tion coach to lose her accent. Rumors were fly­ing that per­haps she is con­sid­er­ing a new movie role. Per­haps she is. But maybe she’s just tired of peo­ple think­ing it sounds “cute” instead of tak­ing her seri­ously. Or maybe she’s tired of repeat­ing her­self and being noticed for her accent instead of for who she is. Her rea­sons may be very sim­i­lar to yours. How would your life be dif­fer­ent if you didn’t have to worry about being misunderstood?

In honor of her New Year’s Res­o­lu­tion, I’m going to give you some­thing that will help you lose your accent. It is an audio record­ing of one of the sounds that Adri­ana Lima will prob­a­bly work on if she does work with an accent reduc­tion coach. Like many non-native speak­ers, she pro­nounces the short I as a long E, as in I want to get rid of my accent. But, it sounds like I want to get reed of my accent.

If you would like to get rid of your dif­fi­culty say­ing the short I sound, then down­load the Amer­i­can pro­nun­ci­a­tion audio below. This train­ing is usu­ally reserved for my per­sonal clients, but today I want to share it with you absolutely free. And if you hap­pen to know Adri­ana Lima, please pass it on to her with my compliments!

The Short I sound prac­tice audio

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If you will lis­ten and prac­tice along with this audio daily, you will soon begin to lose your accent. And yes, you can share this Amer­i­can pro­nun­ci­a­tion train­ing with your friends on Face­book and Twit­ter. Just click on the Share but­ton below and be sure to tell them it was from me. Thanks!

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