The American Accent Guide, Second Edition: A Complete and Comprehensive Course on the Pronunciation and Speaking Style of American English for Individuals of All Language Backgrounds / book and 8 CDs

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Customer Reviews:

An ESL teacher's review of the American Accent Guide. [Posted on 2008-02-20]
I teach ESL to Asians from various countries. My students and I found the American Accent Guide to be very useful and practical. There is plenty of opportunity for practicing every sound in the English language, in context. The book helped me to explain exactly how to make each sound with the vocal apparatus. My students were able to understand the explanation and mimic each sound after I demonstrated. Also, there is plenty of discussion and practice on word stress, sentence stress, intonation and inflection. My students also enjoyed using the audio CDs to practice all of the sounds and word lists written in the book. It's a great value for the price!

Excellent product [Posted on 2008-03-12]
Before buying this book+CDs I thought I needed to refine my accent. After trying this product I realize that I have to improve a lot more (my accent, pronunciation, rithms, etc). The CDs are very helpful and go over a variety of topics. Buy it, you won't repent!

Skip this one. Expensive and not very useful [Posted on 2008-03-19]
Very confusing. I teach English and I wasn't able to use it. Comes with CDs so maybe helpful for someone working on their own (no teacher) but then the directions are too confusing. Prefer to get a language book at the library!

Almost perfect [Posted on 2008-08-01]
Very good book, explanations are clear and well organised, and so the cds. If it had more exercises, or those that are written only had an audio part, would be perfect.

I strongly recommend this book  [Posted on 2008-10-02]
I am Japanese, however, I used to live in the US for a long time, but I always had a problem talking with an American accent. It seems like Japanese people have such a strong accent. Japanese people have been studying English for a long time, however, somehow we cannot improve our English speaking skills. I think it has something to do with the Japanese culture and personality. If we don't have enough confidence to speak English or are not sure on how to speak English, we try not to speak up. We are a very shy people. The American Accent Guide book is a great tool to improve our English pronunciation, particularly the American accent. This book uses the International Phonetic Alphabet so that it helps us how to pronounce. The explanation for each IPA symbol and picture of mouth and positioning of the tongue is very helpful for us to know how to pronounce correctly. We can practice along with the CD, which follows the book so that it is easy to understand. This book and CD gives great explanations and practices for the English inflections, stress, and rhythms. I strongly recommend this book for people who want to improve their native English speaking level and pronounce English words with an American accent. It is a very well organized book.

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