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| American Accent Training (Book and Audio CD, 2nd Edition) | 
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Sales Rank: 4521
Category: Book
Author: Ann Cook
Publisher: Barron's Educational Series
Studio: Barron's Educational Series
Manufacturer: Barron's Educational Series
Label: Barron's Educational Series
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 210
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.3
Dimensions (in): 12.2 x 10.2 x 2
ISBN: 0764173693
Dewey Decimal Number: 421.54
EAN: 9780764173691
ASIN: 0764173693
Publication Date: September 1, 2000
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Product Description
The second edition of the highly acclaimed American Accent Training, now on 5 audio CDs, is for foreign-born students and business people working, traveling or studying in the United States and Canada. Through extensive intonation and pronunciation exercises, students learn how to speak with a standard American Accent. At the same time, listening comprehension improves dramatically. Supplementary materials included detailed nationality guides for eight languages (Chinese, Japanese, Indian, Spanish, French, German, Russian and Korean), access to a comprehensive website, and referral to a qualified telephone analyst for an individual diagnostic speech analysis. Also included are colored markers for written exercises, and a mirror to practice accurate pronunciation.
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 Directions November 21, 2008
This is excellent book except one problem, I think you need to study the book from end to the beginning:
1- Pronunciation first.
2- then Liaisons.
3- and then Intonation.
Why? because I thing first you have to know to pronounce a word then how to connect it then how to get the correct intonation. But this book has done exactly the opposite.
Other than this, the book is really excellent.
It was very helpful to take a look at some www.youtube.com lessons and www.UgoEigo.com (how to pronounce the R sound).
Great book November 9, 2008
This book is great. Even if you can't speak well, you'll learn. You can? You'll speak with less accent.
 A Sure American Accent Guide November 2, 2008
A good buy as an American accent training resource.
Especially designed for non-Americans.
Excellent.
I highly recommended it.
More Focuses on Intonation!!! but this's one of the best ones. October 8, 2008
This software is the first I bought and studied to improve my pronunciation, but for me personally, this product more focuses on Intonation rather than teaching how to say correctly and find the differences between words. So, the next step I'd do is to bought another one that's Improve Your American English Accent by Charlsie Childs. I adore so much Childs' teaching in finding the differences between words when you say it one by one, and after I deeply understand how to say words correctly, simply I just studied the intonation by using the best product of Ann Cook- American Accent Training. My point is they both had done such a wonderful job for all of us. Thank you so much for Ann Cook and Charlsie Childs- you are the real teacher for me. For everyone who really want to improve your English pronunciation buy these products. These are the real beneficial investment for all of you.
A fantastic, often nefarious theme made easy! September 19, 2008
I have to say this book is for us people who would like to master American English Pronunciation...This book is fantastic in the whole theme. The way it explain the letters: There's a chapter tha deals with the "T", which Ann Cook explains very extensively, has more than five different sounds in American English. The final chapter (an appendix) deals with the most usual problems people from different etnicities face up to when trying to talk English.
Before coming to this material I "THOUGHT" I Knew English. But, confronting the issues presented, I deducted I knew just Spanish in English (What I call literally speaking a language). More or less, speaking English with a Spanish base.
I have these CDs on my car and here them over and over. I use to hear one for weeks and the turn it over to the other...and then circle back to the first...
I certainly recommend this book to anyone who has not been born in USA and would like to talk a better English (American Accent).
A WORD OF CAUTION: As everything in life, the whole thing is just as good as you prove yourself you are capable: MEANING? It require you to "work it out" and try the different accents, rythms and tones variation proposed by Ann. It's certainly not amateur stuff!!!
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