Product Description:

The Mastering the American Accent accent reduction book and audio CD teaches you to pronounce American English words and sentences with clarity, confidence, and accuracy. Specific pronunciation exercises focus on vowel sounds, problematic consonants such as V, W, B, TH, and the American R. The book contains diagrams for the correct lip and tongue positions for all sounds.

This accent reduction book and audio also teach you how to use syllable stress and link words for smoother speech.

A native language guide explains the most problematic accent issues for speakers from 13 different languages including Spanish, Chinese & Korean.

The accent reduction book comes with four CD’s that use male and female voices to model American English pronunciation.

Price: $19.79

Product Recommendation

This book is VERY EFFECTIVE for accent reduction because the author dedicates many chapters to syllable stress, sentence stress, sentence intonation and linking. These are key aspects of American English pronunciation that students must master in order to reduce their accents. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND this book!

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Reading the book and listening to the CD make me feel that the author truly understands my issues and frustrations. The book demonstrates each pronunciation with practice words and sentences which are simple and easily understood. Those practice words and sentences showed me that I have been pronouncing words incorrectly but wouldn’t have known this otherwise. Moreover, I can apply those examples immediately in my daily conversations.

The other merit of this book that I really like is that this book goes beyond the pronunciation. It also teaches you the rules of which word and syllable need to be stressed and which are not. I’ve been applying these rules. I feel that those rules have helped my intonation when I speak. I learned a lot about how Americans link words together. I use to pronounce thing word by word. This made my speech sound artificial. I love the exercises on linking. You cannot sound like a native speaker is you don’t link words.

This is the 3rd similar book I have bought in the past few years and this one hands down is the most useful for me because of how easy it is to follow. I have been an American English speaker for the past 15 years and am always looking for ways to sound more “American” and I am amazed at how much I have learned just by reading a few chapters. There are things that I haven’t seen any other similar books mention like “Linking words in American”. I highly recommend this book for beginners and advanced speakers just trying to perfect their American accent.

Mastering the American Accent with Audio CDs