Christi Barb, founder of Adastra Speech, is a speech and language coach for people who speak English with an accent that makes it difficult to be understood clearly. Combining speech-language pathology methods with her understanding of how languages affect speech from her experience teaching English as a second language, Christi is a specialist in analyzing what contributes to being "easy to understand".

Listen in to this episode of Women Inspired where you will hear:

• What defines an "accent" and why we all have one
• What makes some foreign accents more difficult for American English listeners to understand than others
• Methods for making changes to your accent
• Examples of successful speakers who "gained an accent" in order to be understood
• To learn more about Adastra speech, go to https://www.facebook.com/adastraspeech

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