Finance &
Accounting English For Non-Native Speakers of American English - Certification Program
This program will equip you with the skills and information to assess your own level of spoken English and design a customized program to enhance your skills and improve.
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Certificate Highlights
If English isn’t your first language and you are a professional in finance or accounting, you owe it to yourself to take this program. It will guide you through clear steps to help you feel comfortable and confident in your spoken American English.
If you live and work in the US, or if you communicate daily with speakers of American English and live outside the US, it is important for everyone to understand you the first time. If you ever have to repeat what you say or feel misunderstood at times, this course can help your credibility and confidence.
What’s included in this program?
Step One: The Vowels of American English
Step Two: Comparative Contrasts in Usage with the Vowels of American English
Step Three: The Consonants of American English
Step Four: Comparative Contrasts in Usage with the Consonants of American English
Step Five: Endings on Words
Step Six: Word Stress Patterns
Step Seven: Intonation & Presence
Step Eight: Finance & Accounting Vocabulary
This program will equip you with the skills and information to assess your own level of spoken English and design a customized program to enhance your skills and improve. You’ll also learn about important tools, including the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), the rubber band technique, the tissue technique, and the “fish” exercise, all of which help you to monitor your speech and ensure you get noticeable improvement and sustainable results.
Frequently Asked Questions
FAQs
Why should I be Illumeo Certified?
In short, you would do this to get better at what you already do, or to get a significant knowledge jump on something you want to do for a living. And, via the certificate itself, to be able to show others that you have attained this knowledge.
Why should I hire a Professional with an Illumeo Certification?
You would hire this Professional because they bring deep knowledge, on concrete topics, to your team. Simply completing the Illumeo certification denotes that the person is a serious professional willing to take the time to become very good at what they do, and that they put in the time, passed the tests, and are knowledgeable in their area of certification.
What happens if I fail the exam?
There is an exam for every course and you must pass every one in order to receive your certification. You may re-study the content and re-take any exam until you pass it.
Why would I want a subscription on Illumeo?
A subscription to Illumeo helps fill out your professional knowledge with its unfettered access to hundreds of up-to-date on demand courses taught by long-time practitioners - just like the instructor of this certification program.
Instructor
Rebecca Linquist
Rebecca Linquist is a seasoned Speech, Voice, Accent & Executive Presence Coach in the Silicon Valley Bay Area of northern California where she has spent the last 20 years helping foreign-born and non-native speaking professionals and executive uplevel their skills in communication. She specialized in American English Accent Acquisition and Public Speaking & Presentations skills for non-native speakers. She developed this program to help you acquire the skills to self-assess and become aware of your own specific speech issues and work to resolve them.
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