Improve your American English accent

Improve your American English accent

Charlsie Childs

Sound recording - 2004

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Subjects
English language > Pronunciation by foreign speakers.
English language > Spoken English.
English language > Accents and accentuation.
Americanisms.
Published
New York : McGraw-Hill c2004.
Language
English
Main Author
Charlsie Childs (-)
Physical Description
3 compact discs (75 min. each) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 book (x, 45 p. ; 18 cm.)
Playing Time
03:45:00
ISBN
9780071428095
  • Introduction
  • A quick review of grammar terms
  • Points of speech articulation
  • Major North American English vowels
  • Session One.
  • 1.1. Introduction to Improve Your American English Accent
  • 1.2. What's in Session One
  • 1.3. The vowels 6 and 10
  • 1.4. Vowel sound 11
  • 1.5. Syllables
  • 1.6. Syllable stress
  • 1.7. Consonants: Stops and continuants
  • 1.8. The glottal stop: An important extra stop sound
  • 1.9. Voicing and vowel duration
  • 1.10. Stress in abbreviations and initials
  • 1.11. Let's try to apply this information
  • 1.12. Assignment
  • Session Two.
  • 1.13. What's in Session Two
  • 1.14. The vowels: Review of vowels 6 and 11
  • 1.15. The vowels: Introducing vowels 3, 4, and 5
  • 1.16. Different ways to pronounce stops
  • 1.17. linking words together (as the native speakers do)
  • 1.18. Three variations of -s|-es noun and verb endings
  • 1.19. Syllable stress with suffixes -ion, -sian, -tion
  • 1.20. Word stress in adjective + noun phrases
  • 1.21. Let's try to apply all this information
  • 1.22. Assignment
  • Session Three.
  • 2.1. What's in Session Three
  • 2.2. The vowels: 1 and 2
  • 2.3. The vowels: Front vowels 1, 2, 3, and 4
  • 2.4. The vowels: Vowel 12
  • 2.5. The three -ed verb endings (the regular endings for simple past and past participle forms)
  • 2.6. Practice using the -ed endings
  • 2.7. The between-vowel (intervocalic) d or t flap
  • 2.8. Practice using the d or t flap
  • 2.9. Stress in adjectives with -al, -ial, or -ual suffixes
  • 2.10. Stress in noun + noun phrases
  • 2.11. To stress or not to stress: the schwa
  • 2.12. Stress and non-stress in some useful words
  • 2.13. Let's try to apply all this information
  • 2.14. Assignment
  • Session Four.
  • 2.15. What's in Session Four
  • 2.16. Vowels: Vowel sound 8
  • 2.17. Vowels: Back vowels 8, 9, and 10
  • 2.18. Contractions: Is
  • 2.19. Contractions: Are
  • 2.20. Contractions: Does
  • 2.21. Contractions: Did
  • 2.22. Contractions: Will
  • 2.23. Contractions: Would
  • 2.24. Contractions: Can and can't
  • 2.25. Reducing the h in words that are not important
  • 2.26. Stress with the common suffix -ity
  • 2.27. Assignment
  • Session Five.
  • 3.1. What's in Session Five
  • 3.2. The vowels: lower vowels 6, 7, 8, and 11
  • 3.3. Practicing stress, pitch. linking. and reductions in declarative sentences
  • 3.4. Practicing non-stress
  • 3.5. Summary of some important speech aspects
  • 3.6. When joining a front vowel to another vowel
  • 3.7. When joining a back vowel to another vowel
  • 3.8. Forming new sounds by joining sounds together
  • 3.9. linking words with the same (or closely related) sounds
  • 3.10. Practice with some common helping verbs
  • 3.11. Assignment
  • Session Six.
  • 3.12. What's in Session Six
  • 3.13. Pitch pattern change after a subject has been introduced
  • 3.14. Usual pitch patterns in English information questions
  • 3.15. Usual pitch patterns in North American English yes/no questions
  • 3.16. Usual pitch patterns in North American English either/or (choice) questions
  • 3.17. Usual pitch patterns in North American English attached questions
  • 3.18. Breaking the rules of stress in special situations
  • 3.19. Let's try to apply all this information
  • 3.20. Assignment

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