Sách American Accent Training (Book+Audio)

Title: American Accent Training

Author(s): Ann Cook

Publisher: Barron's

Date: 2000, 2nd Edition

Pages: 208

Size: 335 Mb (ebook: 2.2 Mb + Audio CD: 333 Mb)

Format: PDF + MP3

Quality: High, 44kHz/128kbps

Language: American English

Contents:

Recommended! 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.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Read This First . iv

A Few Words On Pronunciation . vii

Preliminary Diagnostic Analysis x

Chapter 1 American Intonation 1

Staircase Intonation 5

Syllable Stress 19

Complex Intonation 23

Two-Word Phrases 24

Grammar in a Nutshell . 35

The Miracle Technique . 46

Reduced Sounds . 48 Word Groups and Phrasing . 56

Chapter 2 Word Connections . 59

Chapter 3 Cat? Caught? Cut? 71

Chapter 4 The American T 77

Chapter 5 The El 85

Voice Quality 94

Chapter 6 The American R 95

Follow-up Diagnostic Analysis 100

Chapters 1-6 Review and Expansion 101

Two-, Three- and Four-Word Phrases . 108

Chapter 7 Tee Aitch 118

Chapter 8 More Reduced Sounds . 121

Middle I List . 125

Intonation and Attitude . 128

Chapter 9 "V" as in Victory 129

Chapter 10 S or Z? . 131

Chapter 11 Tense and Lax Vowels . 135

Grammar in a Bigger Nutshell 138

Chapter 12 Nasal Consonants 145

Chapter 13 Throaty Consonants . 147

Final Diagnostic Analysis . 150

Chapters 1-13 Review and Expansion . 151

Nationality Guides 172

Chinese . 173

Japanese 177

Spanish . 180

Indian 183

Russian . 186

French . 188

German . 189

Korean 191

Answer Key 193

Index 197

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