American Accent Training : : a Guide to Speaking and Pronouncing Colloquial American English
Book - 2017 Lang-Learn-ENG 428.24-Co, Adult / Nonfiction / Language Learning / ESL 3 On Shelf No requests on this item
Sign in to request
Locations
Call Number: Lang-Learn-ENG 428.24-Co, Adult / Nonfiction / Language Learning / ESL
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Malletts Creek Branch, Pittsfield Branch
Location & Checkout Length | Call Number | Checkout Length | Item Status |
---|---|---|---|
Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout |
Lang-Learn-ENG 428.24-Co | 4-week checkout | On Shelf |
Malletts Adult Books 4-week checkout |
Adult / Nonfiction / Language Learning / ESL | 4-week checkout | On Shelf |
Pittsfield Adult Books 4-week checkout |
Adult / Nonfiction / Language Learning / ESL | 4-week checkout | On Shelf |
Includes index.
"With more than 8 hours of downloadable audio" --front cover.
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: mi-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.
"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.
REVIEWS & SUMMARIES
Summary / AnnotationCOMMUNITY REVIEWS
No community reviews. Write one below!
PUBLISHED
Hauppauge, NY : Barrons Educational Series, Inc., [2017]
Year Published: 2017
Description: xi, 233 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781438010359
1438010354
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Forsyth, Holly,
SUBJECTS
English language -- United States -- Pronunciation.
English language -- United States -- Accents and accentuation.
English language -- Spoken English -- United States.
Americanisms.