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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
Great book but CDs are incomplete,
By Victor (Atlanta, GA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: American Accent Training (Audio CD)
I think this is a good book for non-English native speaker. I'm practicing and hoping it can help me improve my spoken English. You can find a lot of good points in this book from other customers' review.One thing that bothers me is that CDs skip several explanatory paragraphs from the book. There are important techniques or examples in those missing parts too. I don't know if it is intentional or not. But it smoothly proceeds to the next section. I did ask the author by email given in the book but no any response. Yet, all exercises are still in CDs.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Best book I've ever read, but I still have a French accent.,
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This review is from: American Accent Training (Audio CD)
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.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great program!,
By Jmark2001 (Florida) - See all my reviews
This review is from: American Accent Training (Audio CD)
Ann Cook has put together the clearest, most insightful program for acquiring an American accent that I have found. You get 5 very useful CD's all cued to the manual, a small mirror, markers, and an excellent manual. Quite a value! She understands the American accent perfectly and masterfully explains the ingredients that make up that accent. I am a native speaker/speech therapist and I learned a good deal from this package. I do have one small reservation: a few of her examples of American speech which she considers standard (spoken by educated speakers) sound, to my ears, like mumbling and non-standard speech (ex: "didee" for "did he", "wooden knee" for "wouldn't he"). I prefer a bit more clarity where consonants are concerned. Dropping consonants has always been a sign of low socio-economic American speech, not standard American speech. This is a minor complaint about an otherwise excellent package.
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