American Accent Training with 5 Audio CDs

by Ann Cook

Book Overview

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1438071655
• ISBN13: 9781438071657
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: Barron's Educational Series
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.8" x 10.8"

Customer Reviews

couldn't download audio files. link doesn't work

Great book but no audio files. They advertised as "American Accent Training book with online audio" but audio files are not downloadable. I have attempted to seek help a few times but no help. It feels I wasted my money for the book. However, I still like the book and wish to study once I have the audio files.

American Accent Training Guide

Thanks, it is the best buy to practice American Accent. Great service and fast shipping.

Great program!

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.

Excelent book and practical teaching system

I am very glad that I found the first edition of "American Accent Training" book in a library a couple years ago. I looked at three or four similar books at the time and American Accent Training was the most practical and comprehensive book I was able to find. I purchased the book and ended taking lessons via phone with Ann who helped me greatly to improve my American English accent. I found her approach to accent training very practical, easy to apply and practice every day at work or in public. The book and audio CDs are also very helpful for "do it yourself approach". But make no mistake - to purchase the book is the easiest step, the hardest thing is to practice your new skills every day. Regarding myself, everytime I open Ann's book I notice and learn new things about my accent again and again.

American Accent Training by Ann Cook (book with audio casset

I am so glad to give myself this book with the audio cassette. It is very informative. It trains me while listening to the tapes. I recommend that people who buys the book gets the tape too. It won't be effective without it. Believe me it is worth your money.Buy for yourself or for someone you love.

This is an excellent book to learn pronunciation.

After I spent 14 months in school learning English I received my ESL certification. However, although my understanding of, writing, and reading in English were proficient. My pronunciation was very poor and many a time I had to repeat my words for people to understand me. When I found Ann Cook's AAT I knew I had what I needed to overcome this problem. I finished the whole book in a matter of days and I noticed the great difference, some people don't believe English is my second language. Thanks Ann for this excellent way to help people like me with pronunciation problems. I have recommended this book to many of my friends, it's been very helpful for them as well.