Accent and communication training for international professionals
Their expertise is not in question. Being heard is.
Your international hires already know the law, the medicine, the code, the engineering. Accent Clarity closes the distance between what they know and what a room hears.
Live coaching plus a personalized practice platform, built on 20 years of work with professionals from 55 countries.
The problem companies actually have
The knowledge arrives. The message does not.
An engineer understands a complex technical problem perfectly, then loses the room explaining it quickly in a meeting. The idea gets attributed to whoever restates it more clearly.
An attorney knows exactly what needs to be said, but feels that an accent changes how confidently the message lands with a client, a judge, or opposing counsel.
A clinician has years of experience behind every recommendation and still needs clearer communication with patients and colleagues, where a misheard instruction carries real consequences.
The goal is not to erase an accent. The goal is to make sure expertise is heard as clearly as it deserves to be.
What the training actually covers
Clear English is more than clear consonants.
Most accent programs stop at individual sounds. Being understood at work depends just as much on rhythm, stress, and the small unstressed pieces that make English sound like English.
The consonants and vowels that change meaning when they slip. "Thirty" and "dirty" should not be a coin toss.
Which word carries the point. Flat, evenly stressed speech makes a listener work to find the meaning.
The melody that marks a question, a caution, a correction, or a closing. Wrong melody, wrong message.
A consonant at the end of one word joining the vowel that starts the next. "Take it out" becomes one phrase, not three separate words.
The unstressed pieces native speakers compress. "Can" turns into /kən/. Say every word at full strength and speech sounds effortful.
Speed, pausing, and mouth position. Speaking fast with a closed mouth is the single most common clarity problem I hear.
Structure that holds up under pressure, in a meeting or a hearing, not just on paper.
Saying it once, clearly, without restarting the sentence. Confidence follows fluency, not the other way around.
Why traditional coaching stalls
What happens on the other six days?
One hour a week produces one hour of change. Speech habits are built by repetition, and repetition happens between sessions or it does not happen at all. That question is why the Accent Clarity platform exists.
Not a library of generic exercises
Practice written from the speaker's own errors.
After each live session, the exact sounds a professional struggled with are turned into practice sentences in the vocabulary of their own field. A pharmacist practices counseling language. An attorney practices courtroom language. Nobody receives the same file as everyone else.
YourHonor, the petitioner filed thisevidence prior to the hearing.
We will requesta continuance so that we canexamine the record.
The live session surfaces the pattern
Coaching one to one or in a small group. Not just what was mispronounced, but why: mouth position, speed, first-language transfer, sentence stress, the sounds that disappear under pressure.
The practice is written the same day
Sentences drawn from the speaker's own profession, marked for the specific sounds they need. Assigned to their account before the next working day begins.
Twenty minutes a day, on their own schedule
They shadow the model, record themselves, and receive immediate feedback on sounds, rhythm, and stress. Short enough to fit a real professional calendar, frequent enough to change a habit.
Progress is reviewed, not assumed
Recordings and scores are reviewed before the next live session, so coaching time is spent on what has not moved yet. Organizations get visibility into participation and progress.
Built for organizations with international teams
Where clarity carries the most weight.
Technology and IT
Stand-ups, client demos, architecture reviews, and the moments where an idea has to survive being explained quickly.
Law firms
Client consultations, depositions, hearings, and negotiation, where authority is partly carried by delivery.
Healthcare organizations
Patient counseling, handoffs, and interdisciplinary rounds, where being misheard has clinical consequences.
Engineering firms
Site coordination, safety briefings, and technical presentations to clients who are not engineers.
Ways to work together
Individual, group, and corporate programs.
Individual coaching
For a professional whose role depends on being understood the first time.
- Weekly one to one live session
- Practice written from that session
- Daily platform access between sessions
Group programs
For teams that share a first language or a common communication demand.
- Small cohort live sessions
- Individual practice inside a shared program
- Shared vocabulary from the team's real work
Corporate training
For organizations investing in the communication side of technical talent.
- Program scoped to roles and departments
- Participation and progress reporting
- Onboarding cohorts and ongoing development
Who leads the training
Sherlen Tanner
Founder, LangSolution
I teach English, but international professionals do not come to me simply to learn English. They already have careers and expertise. They come to me because they want their spoken English to reflect the level of expertise they already have.
For more than 20 years I have worked with English learners and international professionals from many countries and professional backgrounds. Through LangSolution I focus on accent reduction, speech clarity, fluency, and professional communication. Seeing the limits of live coaching alone is what led me into educational technology, and eventually to building the Accent Clarity platform.
- EducationMA in TESOL candidate, Southeast Missouri State University. Graduate Certificate in TESOL, Northern Illinois University.
- Taught atElgin Community College, City Colleges of Chicago, and the English Language Training Institute at UNC.
- SpecializationAccent reduction and professional communication for healthcare, legal, engineering, and technology professionals.
- Also buildsLangSolution AI, a preparation platform for internationally trained professionals.
Start a conversation
Let's look at what your team actually needs.
A short consultation covers who would benefit, what a program would look like for your organization, and how progress would be measured. No prepared pitch, just a look at the communication gaps you are already noticing.
- Emailsherlentanner@langsolution.com
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- Based inWashington State, remote and on site
- ServingTechnology, law, healthcare, engineering