Cambridge CELTA Certified Accent Coach with 14+ Years of Experience

Mason F.

I am a Cambridge CELTA-certified English pronunciation and accent coach with over fourteen years of experience, helping people from all over the world reduce their accent and sound more natural. I hold a Bachelor’s in Education from San Francisco State University and have worked in education since 1994. Originally from California, I spent years in Madrid's theater district teaching actors and business professionals to reduce their accent and master international communication. I also taught young adults in the Madrid public school system. Over the past five years, I’ve taught 6,500+ online one-on-one lessons to nearly 1,000 adults. This experience gives me unique insight into the phonetic challenges of Slavic, Germanic, Latin-based, Asian, Afro-Asiatic, and Austronesian languages.

My teaching style is focused and results-driven. My methodology emphasizes prosody (stress, rhythm, and intonation) alongside vowels, consonant clusters, word linking, and reduced forms. To ensure consistent progress, I provide tailored materials, including custom audio files for shadowing homework. These targeted exercises build new muscle memory between live sessions, smoothly transitioning mechanical phonetics into natural conversation. This approach helps students overcome cross-cultural hurdles and navigate linguistic bias, mastering conversational nuances like pitch changes and phrasing, necessary to sound polite and approachable in American professional settings.

I aim to create a supportive environment where you feel comfortable making mistakes, because that is where real progress happens. Whether you're an actor refining a character's voice or a professional needing absolute clarity, we will analyze your patterns to break old habits step by step. If your goal is to master the American English accent and be easily understood, my practical approach helps you build speech that is clearer, smoother, and completely confident.