American Accent Training: With Downloadable Audio, 4th Edition
Product ID: 46853018
Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product. 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 online audio. The program goes where no American accent training tool has gone before, providing highly innovative instruction for both students and business people. The structure of the book has been reorganized, offering students a much more clear and direct sequence of lessons and a path to better understanding The online audio component features professional male and female voices that have been carefully selected to represent authentic American pronunciation and intonation Pronunciation exercises encompass all vowel sounds, consonants, blends, and diphthongs Emphasis on linking, or phonetically transcribed sound liaisons, help students "see" the correct sounds Designed for foreign-born students and business people working, traveling, or studying in the United States and Canada 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). More valuable features include access to a comprehensive website, and referral to a qualified telephone analyst for an individual diagnostic speech analysis. Review: So far so good - I am not a native English speaker. I have been speaking English for about 15 years though and living in the US for 7 years. I definitely don't have a thick confusing accent and Americans keep telling me that "your English is so good and you don't have a difficult accent at all." However, I don't speak with an American accent :( It has mentally put me under pressure (partly because I tend to be perfectionist) to the point that sometimes I don't speak among others just because I don't want to be that token person. So, I decided to buy this book and try to change my accent (although I am one of those people thinking that your accent forms in your childhood.) Having gone through a few pages of this book and listening to the audio files, I have gained great info so far and am motivated to change my accent (even if it's just getting closer a bit to the standard accent.) I will update my review as time passes and I keep working through the book. BTW, this book's material and design is excellent especially the American flag design. Every time I pick up this book I feel so patriotic. I know I wasn't born here but the US is my adopted country and I would die for it. US of A :) Update-1, 11/4/2017: Something has been really bothering me about the way phonetics has been done in this book. Why not IPA? We spend so much time learning IPA in order to use a dictionary and then all of a sudden in this book you see a new convention (that I haven't seen anywhere else.) I am making my conversion table to IPA for this book and really wish that in the future editions the author would use IPA. Review: A must-have for any English learning - This is a book that I would like to recommend to all English learners. Before I read this book, I was skeptical how a book could help someone to actually correct their accents. It really surprises me! It explains everything clearly and the exercises are pratical and helpful. I hope everyone could have the chance to read it!
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| Customer Reviews | 4.3 out of 5 stars 388 Reviews |
P**E
So far so good
I am not a native English speaker. I have been speaking English for about 15 years though and living in the US for 7 years. I definitely don't have a thick confusing accent and Americans keep telling me that "your English is so good and you don't have a difficult accent at all." However, I don't speak with an American accent :( It has mentally put me under pressure (partly because I tend to be perfectionist) to the point that sometimes I don't speak among others just because I don't want to be that token person. So, I decided to buy this book and try to change my accent (although I am one of those people thinking that your accent forms in your childhood.) Having gone through a few pages of this book and listening to the audio files, I have gained great info so far and am motivated to change my accent (even if it's just getting closer a bit to the standard accent.) I will update my review as time passes and I keep working through the book. BTW, this book's material and design is excellent especially the American flag design. Every time I pick up this book I feel so patriotic. I know I wasn't born here but the US is my adopted country and I would die for it. US of A :) Update-1, 11/4/2017: Something has been really bothering me about the way phonetics has been done in this book. Why not IPA? We spend so much time learning IPA in order to use a dictionary and then all of a sudden in this book you see a new convention (that I haven't seen anywhere else.) I am making my conversion table to IPA for this book and really wish that in the future editions the author would use IPA.
K**E
A must-have for any English learning
This is a book that I would like to recommend to all English learners. Before I read this book, I was skeptical how a book could help someone to actually correct their accents. It really surprises me! It explains everything clearly and the exercises are pratical and helpful. I hope everyone could have the chance to read it!
T**A
The seller is very good
This book is perfect I recommended it and the seller is very good. He sent the order very fast
H**R
Libro para aprender inglés
Pudiera decir que la información es muy buena para poder aprender, pero el audio que te puede ayudar según las instrucciones del libro no da la posibilidad de poder descargarlo. Es una lástima.
B**B
good book
The book is good, very useful
E**O
Misleading information!!
The audio file is NOT downloadable, instead it’s online only and it has one year limited access. The provided link does not work. Accessing the online files is very sluggish, causing the computer running excessively hot. It’s a good book, however, I feel misled since the audio files do not come with the book. Needless to say this is an Accent and Pronunciation Training Book, without the audio file it’s useless. I have to return it.
A**R
Highly recommended
This is the best American English training book I have ever seen. Combination of kindle and streaming music (at iPad) is very useful. As some reviewers reported, I faced a technical glitch that kept me from streaming/downloading audio. But Barrons fixed the issue immediately after my contacting the customer center.
A**T
Very Useful
Excellent book and mp3 rec download, a little triqui to download the files (for security reason very understand), mouth movement very good, because is key in English pronunciation. I wide recommend, I tried before with other, but I didn't get good results.
D**O
OTTIMO
PIENAMENTE CORRISPONDENTE ALLE ASPETTATIVE.
K**R
Value for money
Amazing
S**N
Bewertung
Dieses Buch sollte laut Verkäuferangaben eine Audio-CD enthalten. Zum Erwerb dieser Audio-Dateien war im Buch eine Internetadresse angegeben. Diese angewählt erschien eine Testseite, in der man drei zum Buch gehörende Fragen beantworten sollte. Dies tat ich vier Tage lang. Inzwischen kenne ich das Buch fast auswendig. Die Audiodateien ließen sich aber nicht laden, da alle Fragen stets falsch beantwortet waren. Eine Nachfrage an den Verlag in Amerika ergab die Gegenfrage, ob ich keine Lust mehr hätte, die Fragen zu beantworten, oder ob sie mir zu schwer seien. Den Link zum Herunterladen der Dateien erhielt ich nicht, obwohl ich vier Tage bewies, dass ich dieses Buch erworben hatte. Nun habe ich mir andere Audio-Dateien besorgt. Sehr schlechte Bewertung für den Kundenservice. Das Buch selbst ist sehr einfach gehalten und kann bereits mir nur geringen Englischkenntnissen erarbeitet werden.
A**S
Excelente material adicional!
Material que foi um divisor de águas no meu estudo de inglês... Me senti muito mais confiante na minha última viagem aos EUA e comprovei que todo conteúdo exposto nesse livro é real (pelo menos em NYC). Você percebe alguns detalhes de pronúncia e se pergunta: como eu nunca percebi isso??? As sutilezas fazem toda a diferença na sua fala e hoje recebo muitos elogios na minha pronúncia!
M**N
The best book to learn American accent
My pronunciation , accent and intonation have improved a lot through reading (and listening) this book.
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