Paul Baston BA

Experience

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Now

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Paul is an experienced accent and dialect coach and professional voiceover artist. Joining Ashley in 2013, Paul completed a full year-long mentorship and now delivers extremely popular one-to-one online accent reduction courses using Ashley's materials. 

 

Paul's coaching is greatly influenced by Ashley's methodology, along with his own experience as a TEFL teacher, language learner, voiceover artist and theatre skills facilitator. He has coached people from over 40 countries (and counting) and from all walks of life. 

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Together with Ashley, Paul co-founded English Pronunciation Roadmap, an online learning hub for English pronunciation. Here Paul collaborated with Ashley to create new learning resources & trainings, and regularly delivering live group sessions along with publishing over 100 pronunciation videos on YouTube.

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Earlier

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Having graduated from the respected BA Drama degree course at the University of East Anglia, he began his career as an actor, director and accent coach for theatre.

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Whilst living in South-East Asia, Paul taught English as a second language to business and vocational students - and started to combine his experience and knowledge of voice and speech together with more traditional English phonetics and phonology to start coaching native and non-native speakers in Standard British pronunciation.

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General Info

 

Paul has his own blog about 'all things vocal', where he occasionally publishes new articles that spark his curiosity about accents and the human voice. 

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Paul grew up in the South East and moved to London after university, where he worked in production for theatre and stand-up comedy, along with leading workshops for arts organisations such as the National Youth Theatre and Bigfoot Arts Education. He is now based in Greater Manchester.