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American Accent Training (Book and Audio CD, 2nd Edition) | 
 enlarge | Author: Ann Cook
Publisher: Barron's Educational Series
Category: Book
List Price: $39.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  82 reviews
Sales Rank: 2101
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: 401
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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| Customer Reviews: Read 77 more reviews...
 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!!!
 Good for the price you pay September 16, 2008
This book along with CD is simple to learn and understand. I like this product very much.
 useless incompetent misleading book August 15, 2008
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
I purchased this book hoping to learn American pronunciation. My background: Previously I have been studying British pronunciation for 2 years and know the subject. In the United States I have been studying American pronunciation with a private tutor for almost one year.
About the book: The book mixes the sounds together which are infact completely different sounds. Therefore it is not consistent. For example page 75: the words "talk", "chalk", "pawn" are in the same pronunciation column as words "bond", "hot", "con". But the pronunciation of those two groups is different!!!!
I will not go through all other things, but there are quite few of them.
And the biggest disadvantage of the book is: the IPA is not used here. The author invented her own phonetic transcription (with umlauts, and other fancy symbols), which are used.
Conclusion: If you want to study American Pronunciation professionally - never buy this book!!!
A Good Book~~ August 13, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book may be very helpful to readers who want to learn American Accent!!
I'm also learning english as a second language.
I realized that the "Accent" is very difficult for ESL students but, it is very important for talking.
After I purchased this book,I'm studying for myself with the book and CDs.
I believe that this book will change me~~
I hope I'm good at "Accent" through this book^^
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