American Accent Training: With Downloadable Audio 4th Edition

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Publishers 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 Barrons 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.