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Mason
- Rate $55
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$55/h
1st lesson free
- English
- Oral Expression
- Phonetics
- English accent reduction
- Linguistics
Certified Accent Coach (CELTA Cambridge) | 14+ Years of Experience | Reduce Your Accent & Speak with Confidence and Clarity
- English
- Oral Expression
- Phonetics
- English accent reduction
- Linguistics
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Mason is a respected tutor in our community. They have been highly recommended for their commitment and the quality of their lessons — an excellent choice to progress with confidence.
About Mason
I am a Cambridge CELTA-certified English pronunciation and accent coach with over fourteen years of teaching experience, helping people from all over the world reduce their accent and sound more natural. I hold a Bachelor of Arts in Art 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.
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- English
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English
My specialty is American English Pronunciation and Accent Reduction, for intermediate and advanced learners who want to sound more natural, communicate clearly, and speak with greater confidence.
My lessons are structured, practical, and results oriented. Before each lesson, I'll send you customized materials, so you can familiarize yourself with the concepts we'll be covering. We'll begin with the fundamentals, including a simple introduction to the International Phonetic Alphabet and to speech mechanics—how to position your lips, tongue, and jaw to produce English sounds accurately.
While we'll work on vowels and consonants, the biggest difference between speaking clearly and sounding natural is prosody: the rhythm, stress, intonation, linking, and reductions that give English its natural flow. We'll also cover consonant clusters, fricatives, and stop consonants (including the flap T and glottal T), plus other advanced features that help refine your accent.
Every lesson is tailored to your individual goals. Whether you're preparing for presentations, job interviews, acting roles, YouTube videos, podcasts, or everyday conversations, we'll focus on the pronunciation skills that matter most to you. If you have your own materials—scripts, presentations, speeches—bring them to class, and we'll use them to improve your pronunciation in a practical, real-world context.
Recommendations
Recommendations come from relatives, friends and acquaintances of the teacher
Mason is an outstanding pronunciation coach! He has helped me improve my pronunciation tremendously and has made a noticeable difference in the way I speak and communicate in English.
What really sets Mason apart is how personalized his approach is. He takes the time to understand my profession and adapts each lesson to my real-life needs. He prepares specifically for every session and creates realistic, profession-specific dialogues and situations that I can actually encounter in my daily work. This makes the lessons incredibly practical and much more valuable than simply working through generic pronunciation exercises.
Mason is patient, thoughtful, extremely well-prepared, and genuinely invested in his students' progress. I feel significantly more confident speaking English because of his coaching.
I highly recommend Mason to anyone who wants to improve their pronunciation, communicate more naturally, and gain confidence in real-life professional situations. He is truly exceptional at what he does!Working with Mason has been a transformative experience for my spoken English and accent reduction. Before our sessions, I often struggled with pronunciation and pacing, but Mason quickly identified the precise mouth mechanics, rhythm, and intonation patterns I needed to adjust.
Instead of generic exercises, he tailored every lesson around my specific communication challenges and daily speaking needs. His patient, targeted feedback made even difficult sounds feel intuitive to master. Thanks to his coaching, my speech is significantly clearer, more fluid, and I feel completely confident expressing myself in any setting. I cannot recommend Mason highly enough to anyone looking to refine their spoken English.Mason is a great teacher! He’s very patient and understanding, and I always feel like he really listens to what I’m struggling with. He’s also very creative and always finds a way to explain or practice something that actually works for me. I’ve found our lessons really helpful and would definitely recommend him!
I had been searching for a teacher whose approach aligned with my own vision of what effective pronunciation training should be—something deeper than just focusing on sounds.
Mason not only understands the mechanics of pronunciation, but also teaches the essential elements that bring spoken language to life, such as prosody, rhythm, and intonation.
What I appreciate most is his ability to use strategies that develop both perception and body awareness, helping you internalize the sounds and the flow of English in a natural, and intuitive way.
Highly recommended if you want to take your English to the next level.View more recommendations
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Rate
- $55
Pack rates
- 5h: $250
- 10h: $500
free lessons
This first lesson offered with Mason will allow you to get to know each other and clearly specify your needs for your next lessons.
- 30mins
online
- $55/h
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