Personally, I've had several classes with Alexandra, and it was amazing to find out how my intonation (influenced by my Northern Irish pronunciation of English) was really impacting upon my ability to communicate with natives here in Spain.

After just a few classes, I began to notice, with Alexandra's guidance, exactly what several of the problems were.  My rising intonation in sentences made many things sound like a question, even when I was saying something simple, whilst my incorrectly structured speech (pausing after the wrong word, trying to say sentences with an English rhythm) was resulting in a lack of clarity.

I quickly noticed as I began to implement some of the things that I learnt in Alexandra's very engaging classes, that I was having fewer problems in making myself understood and people were asking me to repeat myself less and less.

Of course, there's still a lot of work to be done, but if anyone is curious, I really recommend a class with Alexandra!  You won't be disappointed.  Only a few days ago, she had me working on intonation through kick-starting my rapping career :D

My name is Ben Cole, I am studying accent reduction and pronunciation in Spanish with Alexandra.

After moving back to New Zealand from Spain I found my fluidity in Spanish dropping as I used it less and less. So, I decided that if I didn’t do something I would lose it. <o:p></o:p>

With Alexandra I am now able to re-energize my learning and now find myself speaking and thinking in Spanish again.<o:p></o:p>

More importantly I can work on my accent and reduce those English sounds I was making (but didn't know I was doing)!<o:p></o:p>

I love rhythm or cadence of Spanish and with Alexandra hope to return to Spain with a better grasp of Spanish than I had before I left. <o:p></o:p>

I would highly recommend Alexandra to anyone who wants to improve not only their grammar but also their spoken Spanish as this course will enable them to be not only to be understood by natives but also increase the enjoyment of speaking.<o:p></o:p>