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About Joel
Joel Goldes: The Dialect Coach

"Thank you so much for all your patience with me.  More than a teacher you have been a motivational guide who has pushed me to reach beyond my horizon" -- Anil Kapoor (Slumdog Millionaire, 24)

I'm Joel Goldes, a Los Angeles-based dialect coach with 20 years experience that coaches all accents, like British, Irish, French, Australian, German, Mexican, Southern, and Brooklyn, as well as less common accents like Welsh, South African, Thai and hundreds more. I can coach you in any dialect of English spoken on the globe. I'm available to prep for auditions or productions, on-set and ADR dialect coaching.

I've coached actors Anil Kapoor, Julia Ormond, Jim Broadbent, Nicolas Cage, Samantha Morton, Mike Myers, Jennifer Garner, Jason Isaacs, Ryan Phillippe and many others.

I'm also expert at teaching the American accent to actors and corporate professionals who want to be better understood or sound like they grew up in the US. This is sometimes called accent reduction: I refer to it as learning a general or neutral American accent. (More about Joel)

Joel's Sample Reels: Check out clips of actors Joel has coached, including Julia Ormond, Jim Broadbent and Roger Daltrey, whom he coached as five different characters on CSI.

Expert dialect coaching in any dialect, as well as accent reduction for film, TV, and Theater. Natural sounding accents quickly.
Learn any dialect, or learn to speak without one. Prep for auditions and roles in film, TV, and theater. Phone coaching available.
Learn the neutral American accent to be better understood, or learn to sound completely American.

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Listen to Joel Discuss Dialects on the Radio (more)
July 2010:  Here's a link to download the radio interview that was broadcast on New York's WNYU-FM on which I discuss dialect coaching and the master class I'll be teaching 7/24 in New York:  Or click here, then click "Free user" then click "Download."  

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