American accent training
Subtitle: a guide to speaking and pronouncing colloquial American English
By: Ann Cook ; illustrated by Holly Forsyth [and four others] ; audio by Voice Trax Studios with Marcus Harwell
Contributors: Forsyth, Holly, illustrator
Edition: Fourth edition.
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 233
ISBN-13: 9781438010359
Subjects: Accents and accentuation; Pronunciation; Spoken English; Americanisms; English language
Description: "A great training tool for classroom or for personal use! In recent years, Barron's American Accent Training has gained wide respect as a self-teaching program, but more and more speech trainers, teachers, and speech therapists report that they are also using it as a valuable teaching tool in their speech classes. This new edition now comes with downloadable audio. The program goes where no American accent training tool has gone before, providing highly innovative instruction for both students and business people...Supplementary materials include detailed nationality guides for 11 languages (Chinese, Japanese, Indian, Spanish, French, German, Russian, Korean, Arabic, the U.S. Southern accent, and African languages)." --Publisher's website.
Notes: Includes index.

"With more than 8 hours of downloadable audio" --front cover.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : read this first; title: Telephone tutoring: Preliminary diagnostic analysis; title: The American sound; title: Pure sound; title: Voice quality; title: The American speech music; title: Four main reasons for intonation; title: Can or can't; title: Intonation and attitude; title: Squeezed-out syllables; title: Syllable stress; title: Complex intonation; title: Phrasal verbs; title: Word linking & phrasing; title: Word groups and phrasing; title: Cat? Caught? Cut?; title: The miracle technique; title: The American T; title: The American R; title: The El; title: Reduced sounds; title: Grammar in a nutshell; title: Tee aitch; title: S or Z?; title: Telephone tutoring: mid-point diagnostic analysis; title: Review and expansion; title: More reduced sounds; title: "V" as in victory; title: Tense and lax vowels; title: The ridge; title: The verb map; title: Grammar in a bigger nutshell; title: Practical application; title: Nasal consonants; title: Throaty consonants; title: Telephone tutoring: final diagnostic analysis; title: Review and expansion; title: Nationality guides; title: Answer key; title: ESL teacher's guide; title: Index.