American Accent Training, A guide to speaking and pronouncing colloquial, American English, Cook A., 2000

American Accent Training, A guide to speaking and pronouncing colloquial, American English, Cook A., 2000.
 
   Welcome to American Accent Training. This book and CD set is designed to get you started on your American accent. We'll follow the book and go through the 13 lessons and all the exercises step by step. Everything is explained and a complete Answer Key may be found in the back of the text.




What to Do with Your Mouth to Sound American.
One of the main differences between the way an American talks and the way the rest of the world talks is that we don't really move our lips. (So, when an American says, "Read my lips!" what does he really mean?) We create most of our sounds in the throat, using our tongue very actively. If you hold your fingers over your lips or clench your jaws when you practice speaking American English, you will find yourself much closer to native-sounding speech than if you try to pronounce every ... single ... sound ... very ... carefully.

If you can relate American English to music, remember that the indigenous music is jazz. Listen to their speech music, and you will hear that Americans have a melodic, jazzy way of producing sounds. Imagine the sound of a cello when you say, Beddy bada bida beader budder (Betty bought a bit of better butter) and you'll be close to the native way of saying it.

Contents.
Introduction: Read This First.
A Few Words On Pronunciation.
Preliminary Diagnostic Analysis.
Chapter 1 American Intonation.
Staircase Intonation.
Syllable Stress.
Complex Intonation.
Two-Word Phrases.
Grammar in a Nutshell.
The Miracle Technique.
Reduced Sounds.
Word Groups and Phrasing.
Chapter 2 Word Connections.
Chapter 3 Cat? Caught? Cut?.
Chapter 4 The American T.
Chapter 5 The El.
Voice Quality.
Chapter 6 The American R.
Follow-up Diagnostic Analysis.
Chapters 1-6 Review and Expansion.
Two-, Three- and Four-Word Phrases.
Chapter 7 Tee Aitch.
Chapter 8 More Reduced Sounds.
Middle I List.
Intonation and Attitude.
Chapter 9 "V" as in Victory.
Chapter 10 S or Z?.
Chapter 11 Tense and Lax Vowels.
Grammar in a Bigger Nutshell.
Chapter 12 Nasal Consonants.
Chapter 13 Throaty Consonants.
Final Diagnostic Analysis.
Chapters 1-13 Review and Expansion.
Nationality Guides.
Chinese.
Japanese.
Spanish.
Indian.
Russian.
French.
German.
Korean.
Answer Key.
Index.



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