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American Accent Training with Online Audio
Ann Cook
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Ann Cook
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Optimized for use as an eBook, American Accent Training is a great training tool for classroom or personal use! American Accent Training has not only gained wide respect as a self-teaching program among students and business people, but more and more speech trainers, teachers, and speech therapists also use it as a valuable teaching tool in their speech classes.In this book, you will find:
- A linguistically logical structure that follows a direct sequence of lessons and an easy path to understanding
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Pronunciation exercises that cover all vowel sounds, consonants, blends, diphthongs, and much more
The online audio, accessible via Barron's Online Learning Hub, features professional male and female voices that have been carefully selected to represent authentic American pronunciation and intonation.
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The American Sound
Deepen your voice, project it out!
LETâS START AT THE BEGINNING
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As the philosophers say, start with yourself and define your terms. What are the parts of your mouth? How do they interact? What is a consonant? What is a vowel? Letâs take a tour of the mouth, starting with the most basic sound.
Exercise 1-1: The Starting PointâMmmm . . . |
Letâs start with the mmmm sound. Itâs super easy to do. All you do is put your lips together and hum. Youâll notice a couple things here. Your lips are touching and the air is coming out through your nose in a continuous stream. Put your hand on your throat and say mmmm, and observe that you can feel a vibration in your fingertips. This means that the M sound is spoken and not whispered.
Mmmmmm . . .
This exercise tells you four important things about the consonant M:
1.Point of contact (lips)
2.Where the air comes out (nose)
3.How the air comes out (glide)
4.If the sound is spoken or whispered (spoken)
Exercise 1-2: Combining Sounds |
Now that you know where things are, letâs turn it into something. In a deep voice, say the following out loud. Weâre adding two more consonants at the lip position: P & B.
Mmm
Ah
1.mah
2.mah-mah
3.pah
4.pah-pah
5.bah
6.bah-bah
Exercise 1-3: Pronunciation & Cadence |
In your deepest voice, repeat these syllables. To get the physical experience of intonation, either stretch a rubber band, snap your fingers, or tap the table. Repeat this ten times.
1.MAH-mah
2.mah-MAH
3.PAH-pah
4.pah-PAH
5.BAH-bah
6.bah-BAH
Exercise 1-4: Pure Sound |
Letâs put this in context. Using the äh sound, repeat the following sounds. Donât worrry about what it means, just repeat the sounds in a deep, confident voice. That little upside-down e sounds like uh.
1.bä bläs diz jäb
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