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Accent Modification

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    Courses help Latinos reduce their accent.

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Apple.

-- Apple.

As Latinos accidents defining who we are and where we're from but sometimes it can be a detriment so people like Janet -- -- especially education junior -- Kean University.

Is taking -- modification sessions to help them use their accent up.

Before nobody in the same when I use it's Claire asked questions and sent to class so when they have a relevant conversations.

So the citizens helped me laugh so improving my -- it's my -- and then everything.

But just because someone wants to modify their accent doesn't mean you're trying to -- -- -- -- the main goal about some modification is to enhance effective communication the main goal isn't actually too.

Quote unquote to lose an accent.

Especially because -- are part of someone's identity and how they identify themselves.

So some of them downloads we're gonna organs today that we.

You know -- -- that's typical for you are up off I think pull off.

And -- ask apple they start making a basic assessment just kinda get.

I'm down what some of that errors are so big that they -- -- some areas they have trouble -- And and we start from there so we usually use what's called it the pitch and it's a biofeedback program -- computer -- It's gonna analyze what you're saying and you'll see small little red dots appear so you're gonna want when you're saying the word -- -- the sound -- -- want on the red dots to be pretty close to here they may not be exact everybody's always you know Barry's differently than it offers a way to see this sounds that your same.

Which a lot of times is the hard thing people have a really hard time initially hearing the difference and sounds so this is a way to provide -- and visual model.

And it helps a lot of time for them to see that there -- the difference before they can you hear the difference in sound.

And that's a really good off sounding you can see that -- doctor -- significantly in that area.

Karen in -- -- Fox News Latino.

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