Interview with Dr. Geoff Lindsey

We met Dr Geoff Lindsey at the University of Verona, where he was invited by the Department of ForeignLanguages and Literatures to teach two short refresher courses on contemporary English pronunciation. Lindsey, who has a degree from University College London and a PhD from UCLA (Los Angeles, California), is an expert in phonetics and a renowned pronunciation coach. Dr Lindsey’s experience as an academic is considerable. Besides having taught at London, Edinburgh andCambridge Universities, he has done and published research on American and British dialects. He has also worked as a screenwriter and director for a number of projects. In addition, he acted as a contributor to the 1989 Kiel revision of the International Phonetic Alphabet. Today, Dr Geoff Lindsey is a prominent pronunciation and accent reduction coach and works with a variety of students with different needs and aims, as well as with actors, interpreters, and professionals of all kinds and of all languages.