Hi there! My name is Dillon and I'm a writer, actor and accent coach living in Los Angeles, California.

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I moved to the US from Germany to study acting in New York City where I quickly realized I had a much stronger accent than I thought, despite having excelled at English in school. Fortunately, my acting training took me through extensive vocal and diction training and after patient and consistent work, I was able to reduce my own accent to blend in with Americans and to audition for American roles!

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During my studies, I was fascinated by all kinds of accents and dialects (Southern accents, Irish, Scottish, Cockney, Standard British, French, Russian, etc to just name a few!) and after assisting my peers with accents at the time, I realized that I was quite good at this! This prompted my decision, to help others like me (non-native speakers of English) sound more American and more clear when they speak.

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The fact that I’ve gone through the process of reducing my accent myself means I have a very unique perspective on this process that I wish I had access to when I was actually working on the accent. All of my teachers were great, however, they were all native speakers. Non-native speakers have to be a lot more systematic in approaching and changing the way they speak because it’s not their first language. All of my students want to communicate more clearly and with more confidence. A lot of them even want to sound fully like an American native speaker. These two goals are on the same path. The latter of the two is simply further along on that same path. "Clarity" for native speakers often entails speaking similarly to them (in this case: American).