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Title: American Accent Training (American Accent Training, 2nd Ed) by Ann Cook ISBN: 0-7641-7369-3 Publisher: Barrons Educational Series Pub. Date: September, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.14 (21 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: american accent training
Comment: It's a great book and CD, well prepared and very clear voice. Worth the money. I like her intonation and explaination. Also her voice is very clear. You should have this. The price is so reasonable. I highly recommend.
Rating: 5
Summary: Best book I've ever read, but I still have a French accent.
Comment: I've got to say this is the best program on accent training I have ever done -- but unfortunatly, it hasn't worked for me as of yet.
I am a French guy who came to the United States 14 years ago. During those years, I've seen many people my age, my gender, and my nationality take on the American accent in less than two years. And somehow, I feel the American accent is just within my reach, but I'm not quite there yet and I'm really getting frustrated.
In particular, there is one exercise in this book which seems to really pinpoint my problem. It's the one in which the author breaks down a sentence sound by sound and pronounces each sound in the reverse order the sentence was originally in and then it's the job of the student to write down those sounds and guess what the original sentence was saying. In other words, let's say the phrase was "American Accent Training blah blah...". She would not tell us what the original phrase was, but she would tell us something like "blah, blah, ning, trai, sent, naek, cain, ri, may, a". And then she would ask the student to write down each sound and try to reconstitute the sentence by having the student say the sounds in the order they were originally in. Well, I can't get past this exercise. I can never guess what the original sentence was without looking at the answer key, and now I've come to memorize the answer key -- so doing this exercise is really not that helpful anymore.
In a way, this exercise has been a sort of epiphany for me. My problem seems to be one of listening, and not necessarily pronouncing, and I feel I am very close to resolving this issue.
Stephan
PS: I bought this book new from Amazon.com a year ago. The way the CDs were packaged by the original publisher, they were all scratched up when they got to me, but so far I'm about halfway through and none of the scratches seem to affect the quality of the recordings.
Rating: 5
Summary: Strongly recommended.
Comment: This book is the best one I've bought. When I ordered it from Amazon.com, I expected the arrival of the book. When I got it last week, I was so excited. I was too impatient to read it. I have to say: "It is too perfect!" It was an accurate decision that I made. It is worthful to spend the money on. Thanks Amazon.com. Thanks the author, Ann Cook. Thanks God!
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