To sound more like a native speaker, you need to master five key elements: chunking, stress and rhythm, intonation, linking and elision, and clear pronunciation.

In this lesson, you'll focus on chunking—a powerful yet often overlooked technique that helps you structure your speech naturally and master English stress patterns.

Chunking improves clarity, fluency, and impact when you speak. By the end of this lesson, you'll know how to pause effectively, group words naturally, and deliver your message with confidence and clarity.

Esther Bruhl is a Speech and Language Pathologist with more than 30 years of experience helping children and adults.

Over the years, assisting people who wanted to eliminate their accents became a specialty for Esther.

She developed a program to assist in removing accents.

She accomplished this by incorporating her background in speech therapy with a scientific method proven to enhance learning capabilities by strengthening the connections in the brain’s language centre.