By Ann Cook,
Product Name: American Accent Training
Rating: 5/5
List Price: $121.34
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American Accent Training second edition of the highly acclaimed American Accent Training, now it is available on 5 audio CDs, this course 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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By Raj
Hi, i usually shy away from writing reviews unless the products are excellent or atrocious.This one is in the former category.I bought 2 books for catching up on Us accent worth 100 ,spent another 100 on diagnostic skills..One thing i can say is some teachers will tell you to speak slowly others to quicken your speed.Making the speed of speech fast works better for me and my listeners So i like this book better which goes by the same.
If you look at it,field of improving accent is vast and remembering all the voiced,unvoiced consonants blah blah is really hard unless you have a photographic memory which i don’t.So, this one teaches the exact same thing with real life sentences and have you repeat them with appropriate quick pause in audio CD…Having a written book of the same audio CD makes such a difference.This is money well spent.I have recently started going through this and i hope to continue learning with this.Most likely will leave another review once i am done with the material.So far its five stars from my side.
By rhkenji
Well, Ive been living in the united states for quite a while without any practice with my English. This is due to the embarrassing accent that I have. I would sometimes drive someone on the phone crazy because they couldn’t understand the words that I was saying. So I decided to put my foot forward and take my accent further.
Instead of practicing in the real world, I decided to take things slow and start with a book. I was surprise when this package came with a cd, mirror, and markers cause I was expecting something like a small ordinary book. An hour after listening the cd tracks and reading the book, English is somewhat becoming more acceptable and easy for me. And now, though not yet fully good with my English, most of my co-workers understand my sentences the first time that I say them.
I would recommend this to those who can fully understand English but is having a hard time pronouncing words and sentences. This is my first book for accent training and I have a feeling that it’ll be my last because I found everything that I will ever need.
By Lori L. Younker
I just used the material over a 7 week course for international students who must test to improve their speaking/teaching scores for advancing as Teaching Assistants in our university. I have had my best improvement overall of the highest majority of my students than I have ever had before. Improvement and gains are related to this text. The students enjoy the text; they appreciate the voice of Ann Cook as a way to have weekly input for English as they listen to her instructions, modeling, and comments. They used it at 2 to 8 hours per week to get their results. This book is too much information over 2 months. I suggest a 4 month time frame to use it with your students. We will use it again and again. What a nice systematic, creative approach. I only suggest hitting some sounds from the last part of the book earlier if you have high stakes testing such as my students must take. This book is good for those students who come to you with without too many chronic problems in phonemes. Say, less than 5-8 phonemic “struggles.” Thank you, Ann for a fine text to use in our International Teaching Program.
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