Member since August 2024
Melanie empowers executives and public figures to speak clear, confident English through accent reduction, interview and presentation training. She also trains actors to master authentic English and Spanish dialects. She is also a paid public speaker who helps her audiences "Hack into Language" and host of new podcast "Hack That Accent."
Through her brand, Speech Fox, Melanie helps non-native English speakers articulate clear business English and also empowers performers to master dialects from around the world. Melanie has coached speech and pronunciation for 20+ years, and holds a Master's of Science degree in Linguistics from Georgetown University (as well as a Bachelor's of Science degree in Linguistics and Spanish from Georgetown University). She also honed her craft in business presentation and executive leadership roles in the corporate education space as she trained and led successful sales, marketing, and client services teams.
Speech Fox LLC is a WBE (Woman Business Enterprise), an SBE (Small Business Enterprise), and a DOBE (Disability-Owned Business Enterprise)
Learn more about Melanie Fox of Speech Fox at www.speechfox.com and read testimonials about Melanie's work at:
* WEBSITE: https://www.speechfox.com (scroll to bottom of most pages for carousel of client quotes)
* LINKEDIN PROFILE: https://www.linkedin.com/in/speechfox/
- FOLLOW SPEECHFOX ON LINKEDIN: https://www.linkedin.com/company/speechfox/
Learning languages and dialects/accents, glitter, onesies (aka jumpsuits), UFC/MMA, Mafia Movies, Soundtracks/Movie Scores, videos about frogs, foxes, or sloths.
And most importantly, my loving parents and my loving husband (who I nicknamed "boy sweetness")
I overcame a traumatic health issue where half of my face was paralyzed for several months and I also needed to re-learn how to walk. so I turned lemon into lemonades by making my walker (or rollator) into a light-up glitter bomb and made videos of my recovery to inspire my friends, family, and clients to be authentic and share their triumphs and vulnerabilities out loud with the world.
I was inspired by two main life events!
The first, a childhood friend and her family from China. As the first American friend to the Yung family, I saw first-hand how arduously Ada’s parents worked to communicate in English. I loved helping them (from my 6-year-old perspective) to pronounce English—and as a reward—I’d receive post-its with Cantonese phrases. A prize which I’ve cherished for years!
The second–my study abroad to Salamanca, Spain. I lived, studied, and tutored (through “intercambios”) while living in Spain and I developed a deep empathy for language learners. I also immersed myself in Spanish language and the study of its phonetics and phonology. While I was there, I tutored a college student who failed at six consecutive attempts to pass her senior exit exams. After just a few sessions of working on her pronunciation phonemic awareness, and taking dictation, she passed–and I was hooked on helping. I even became a fluent Spanish-speaker in the process!
I overcame a traumatic health issue where half of my face was paralyzed for several months and I also needed to re-learn how to walk. so I turned lemon into lemonades by making my walker (or rollator) into a light-up glitter bomb and made videos of my recovery to inspire my friends, family, and clients to be authentic and share their triumphs and vulnerabilities out loud with the world.
I was inspired by two main life events!
The first, a childhood friend and her family from China. As the first American friend to the Yung family, I saw first-hand how arduously Ada’s parents worked to communicate in English. I loved helping them (from my 6-year-old perspective) to pronounce English—and as a reward—I’d receive post-its with Cantonese phrases. A prize which I’ve cherished for years!
The second–my study abroad to Salamanca, Spain. I lived, studied, and tutored (through “intercambios”) while living in Spain and I developed a deep empathy for language learners. I also immersed myself in Spanish language and the study of its phonetics and phonology. While I was there, I tutored a college student who failed at six consecutive attempts to pass her senior exit exams. After just a few sessions of working on her pronunciation phonemic awareness, and taking dictation, she passed–and I was hooked on helping. I even became a fluent Spanish-speaker in the process!
