Perfecting Your English Pronunciation (with Access to Companion Audio/Video Files)
- 1h 22m
- Susan Cameron
- McGraw-Hill
- 2012
Developed by acclaimed speech consultant and accent specialist Susan Cameron, Perfecting Your English Pronunciation features her successful method, which focuses on the anatomical placement of sound and on the musculature used in articulation. Where other accent reduction/English pronunciation products rely on solely mimicking of audio sounds, this work focuses visually, audibly, and narratively on the physical ability to speak English, noting that many sounds of English may be difficult for you because some tongue positions used in English may not be used in your native language.
About the Author
Susan Cameron is Master Teacher and Chair of Voice and Speech, CAP21, New York University, and is dialect coach for feature film and TV. She is a specialist in accent reduction, and has taught thousands of students from all over the world, most famously, in 1993, Japanese prime minister Hosokawa in preparation for his United Nations address before the General Assembly--the first given in English by a Japanese prime minister. Cameron has consulted for Cartus Language Specialists in working on accent modification with the human resources departments of many international corporations who outsource technological help. Her clients have included foreign executives at American Express and actors wishing to perfect an American accent. She has taught nearly every accent in the world.
In this Book
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Chapter One: Retraining the Articulation Muscles
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Chapter Two: The International Phonetic Alphabet
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Chapter Three: The Consonant th (θ/ð)
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Chapter Four: The Consonant r
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Chapter Five: The Consonant l
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Chapter Six: The Consonant ng (η)
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Chapter Seven: The Consonants b, v, and w
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Chapter Eight: The Consonant j or g (ʤ)
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Chapter Nine: The Vowel Ι
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Chapter Ten: The Vowel e
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Chapter Eleven: The Vowel æ
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Chapter Twelve: The Vowels of r (ɝ and ɚ)
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Chapter Thirteen: The Vowel ^
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Chapter Fourteen: The Vowel ʊ
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Chapter Fifteen: The Vowel Ͻ
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Chapter Sixteen: The Vowels ɑ and oʊ̆
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Chapter Seventeen: Syllable Stress within Words
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Chapter Eighteen: Word Stress within Sentences
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Chapter Nineteen: Marking a Business Speech
