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Accent Skills Sessions

These are the skills you need to learn to be able to even DO an accent!

  • 1

    Beginning ASW - Session 1

  • 2

    Beginning ASW - Session 2

    • Session 2.1 - Welcome back - Homework Check-In

    • Session 2.2 - Vocal Anatomy Overview

    • Session 2.2a - Vocal Folds and Why You Can't Listen to Your Voice!

    • Session 2.3 - The Alveolar Ridge and Your Teeth

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    • Session 2.4 - The Jaw and its Muscles

    • Session 2.5 - The Lips

    • Session 2.6 - The Velum (Soft Palate) and Uvula

    • Session 2.7 - Recap and Homework
  • 3

    Beginning ASW - Session 3

    • Session 3.1 - Sidebar of Questions and Undeniables List Exercise

    • Session 3.2 - Tongue Anatomy

    • Session 3.3 - Pancake & Hotdog Tongue

    • Session 3.4 - Arching and Cupping the Tongue

    • Session 3.5 - "Ewwww" Exercise

    • Session 3.6 - The Blueberry Exercise

    • Session 3.7 - The Shaping Exercise (Phthonging)

    • Session 3.8 - Recap and Homework

    • Session 3.9 - Check In with Chris!
  • 4

    Beginning ASW - Session 4

    • Session 4.1 - Welcome Back - Homeworks Check-in (Sidebar of ? and Undeniables)

    • Session 4.2 - The Vowel Chart - an overview

    • Session 4.3 - How to target shapes on the vowel chart... AND in your preferred accent!

    • Session 4.4 - Vowels (Shapes) and the American /r/

    • Session 4.5 - Vocal Tract Posture

    • Session 4.6 - Your Vocal Tract Posture - Hesitation Sound

    • Session 4.7 - Recap, Homework, and Office Hours
  • 5

    Beginning ASW - Session 5

    • Session 5.1 - Welcome Back - Sidebar of Questions and Undeniables

    • Session 5.2 - What is a Consonant?

    • Session 5.3 - The Empty Chart, an overview

    • Session 5.4 - Consonant Chart - The Physical Locations of Obstructions

    • Session 5.5 - Voiced & Unvoiced

    • Session 5.6 - Plosives

    • Session 5.7 - Nasals

    • Session 5.8 - Trills

    • Session 5.9 - Tap or Flap

    • Session 5.10 - Fricatives and Lateral Fricatives

    • Session 5.11 - Approximants

    • Session 5.12 - Lateral Approximantes

    • Session 5.13 - Non-Pulmonic Consonants

    • Session 5.14 - Omnish Exploration

    • Session 5.15 - Recap and Homework
  • 6

    Beginning ASW - Session 6

    • Session 6.1 - Welcome Back - Let's Check in on ALL your previous work!

    • Session 6.2 - Intro to The Omnish Parliament

    • Session 6.3 - The Omnish Parliament - Speech Time!!!

    • Session 6.4 - Omnish to Somenish - Shrinking our possibilities down into a language or accent

    • Session 6.5 - Recap and Next Steps!

    • Session 6.6 - You're Done!!! How did it go?

Instructor

Dialect Coach Chris Lang

DCW Dialect Coach

Chris Lang

Hi, I'm Dialect Coach Chris Lang! I'm an Experienced Professional Dialect Coach with over 10 years' experience coaching actors in Film, TV, and Theatre. I Also coach in the corporate arena specializing in working with TED speakers, Keynote speakers, & conference presentations, among others. I am also available to work with Athletes who interact with media and especially in their transition from playing to a career in TV and Radio. I am based in LA, NYC, Denver, and I am available Worldwide My own love of dialect work stems from the discovery that it was my road into my work as an actor. I love to help other actors integrate this kind of work into their own processes and to see them grow and prosper in their art and this business. Actors I've worked with have appeared in HBO's Game of Thrones & Westworld, Scandal, The West Wing, The Crown, Doctor Who, Daredevil, Jessica Jones, American Horror Story, The Dark Knight Rises, Captain America: Winter Soldier, Peaky Blinders, and Agent Carter among many others. I'm a proud graduate of Harvard University's ART Institute and have received training from The Moscow Art Theatre School, the University of London, and The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. I have taught at Harvard University, Harvard Summer and Extensions Schools, the University of Wyoming, the ART Institute, The Moscow Art Theatre School, Elysium Conservatory Theatre, AMDA, The Acting Matrix Conservatory, and Andrew Wood Acting Studio. I teach from the perspective of both Fitzmaurice Voicework. and Knight-Thompson Speechwork, the gold standard in training for dialect coaches and speech/accent teachers. I am a Dialect Coaches Worldwide verified and vetted professional dialect coach.