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Is English your second language? Do you have a trace of an accent from your native language? Can I help you? Well, maybe. Watch to find out.
Sup, hey guys welcome to another edition of the gift of gab. Today I would like to say hello to all of my non-native US speaking friends and bilingual voiceover actor is out there. Now I get sought out by a lot of voice actors from a lot of different walks of life in a lot of different areas of the Voice over the industry. One thing I always find fascinating is when people who are not native US speakers come to me and ask me to help them with training or coaching or demo creation. Here’s the thing while that’s really cool and I appreciate it I can’t help. See the problem is this,
Whenever someone is native to another country the language that you grew up speaker is going to be most likely the primary language in which you perform for voiceover especially if you still have any trace of an accent. If you’re at the point where you can be completely neutral speaking in English and in your other language the great you’re fine but if you still have those origins your number one place for being hired and voiceover is going to be in your native language. So therefore we need to seek out is a coach in that native language the biggest reason why is what we call localization in the advertising world. Localization is the process of bringing a product from one market place to another marketplace that is potentially very very different culturally ethnically geographically etc. And so your voiceover becomes a similar type of product in that situation so, for instance, my mom who was born and raised in Sicily and who is an Italian speaker by birth if she was going to create a voiceover demo it would be in Italian not in English. Because Italian is her first language and while yes she may occasionally have opportunities to book voiceover in English with an Italian accent the majority of her work is probably going to come from her Italian roots and companies that have to reach or speak to you in Italian audience so the reason she would seek out an Italian speaking coach is pretty straightforward that person is going to know and understand can somebody like myself what is happening in the Italian market place and how clients are buying and what the trends are. So this is really important especially for some folks in South America and Spanish-speaking countries where there’s so much demand for what you do vocally but there are some very different presentations rules demo production process is auditioning techniques that are specific to the Spanish marketplace so that becomes your goal find a coach who’s in your native language if you need help with us it’s pretty easy you can reach out to coaches like myself and other coaches through Facebook and social media and ask us if we have a recommendation for you so thanks for watching guys I hope this video was helpful.
