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American accent training a guide to speaking and pronouncing colloquial American English

"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...

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Main Author: Cook, Ann, 1954- (Author)
Other Authors: Forsyth, Holly (Illustrator)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Hauppauge, NY : Barrons Educational Series, Inc., [2017]
Edition:Fourth edition.
Subjects:
English language > United States > Pronunciation.
English language > United States > Accents and accentuation.
English language > Spoken English > United States.
Americanisms.
Instructional and educational works.
Online Access:Download the audio from Barron's website.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : read this first
  • Telephone tutoring: Preliminary diagnostic analysis
  • The American sound
  • Pure sound
  • Voice quality
  • The American speech music
  • Four main reasons for intonation
  • Can or can't
  • Intonation and attitude
  • Squeezed-out syllables
  • Syllable stress
  • Complex intonation
  • Phrasal verbs
  • Word linking & phrasing
  • Word groups and phrasing
  • Cat? Caught? Cut?
  • The miracle technique
  • The American T
  • The American R
  • The El
  • Reduced sounds
  • Grammar in a nutshell
  • Tee aitch
  • S or Z?
  • Telephone tutoring: mid-point diagnostic analysis
  • Review and expansion
  • More reduced sounds
  • "V" as in victory
  • Tense and lax vowels
  • The ridge
  • The verb map
  • Grammar in a bigger nutshell
  • Practical application
  • Nasal consonants
  • Throaty consonants
  • Telephone tutoring: final diagnostic analysis
  • Review and expansion
  • Nationality guides
  • Answer key
  • ESL teacher's guide
  • Index.

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