Selected as Booklist Editors' Choice 1998. Designed for professionals and non-professionals, from teenagers to adults, who want to be able to speak Standard American English.
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"Ideal modestly priced material for ESL and speech students, who can practice as they drive to and from class." -- BOOKLIST, July 1998
From the Author
The reasons why in the beginning I speak all of the sounds used in standard American English are so that you can preview the whole program, can see the different ways in which the sounds are spelled, and can know for sure what sound the symbols represent. There is time to repeat after me all of the sounds and words.
Most of my students use the tapes in the car without the book. Before you drive in the car, read the book with tapes at least once to see the different spelling of the sounds. The purpose of this program is to help you change the muscle habits of your mouth by saying correctly over and over again the 5 or 6 sounds which you personally need. The pocket-sized drill book matches the tapes exactly and has many extra drills not on the tapes. You can use the book without the tapes or the tapes without the book.
There are sounds for Southerners such as the “r” (3) and the “l” (4), which Southerners often skip; the “ing” (5) which they pronounce “in”–some say “singin”; and there is the diphthong (38) to help them pronounce “nice white rice” so that it doesn’t sound flat. There are exercises for the “th” (1 & 2) which some Southerners pronounce as “d” or “t.”
There are many other helps for everyone if you will read the book closely, follow the instructions, and practice often.
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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Weak program,
By Jmark2001 (Florida) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Accent Reduction Made Easy : Learn in Your Car (Discovery Series) (Audio Cassette)
Accent reduction needs more insightful advice than what is offered here. I didn't get much out of this program - just some drills that didn't seem to have much of a tie-in to anything of importance. I lost interest quickly and now think that I wasted my money. I highly recommend Sam Chwat's great work for accent reduction of regional American speech, Ann Cook's excellent program for learning the "music" of American speech (but watch out for her misguided advice on dropping consonants at the end of words - it will make you sound like a somewhat unpolished and mumbling American), and the living language series.
12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Wasted real estate and not for the car,
By Mikhail Klimenko (Winter Park, FL United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Accent Reduction Made Easy : Learn in Your Car (Discovery Series) (Audio Cassette)
The author wastes valuable real estate of cassettes by numbering different sounds for about 10 minutes. During this time the only thing you can do is to listen passively. This part is absolutely useless. Next, the author describes sounds as they are pronounced in different words. But it is exactly the reason why I bought this program in the first place - I cannot hear the difference! - the cassettes are useless without the book. And that is the third reason this program is bad - the author constantly refers to the book and you can't drive and read, if you follow my drift. The program is not totally useless, you may practice in your car by repeating words after the author, but the title "Learn in your car" is a misnomer.
19 of 23 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Become a master at speaking English.,
This review is from: Accent Reduction Made Easy : Learn in Your Car (Discovery Series) (Audio Cassette)
I'm German, and have loved studying English all my life. Though I have never lived in the United States, I've used Jane Wellborn's method with great success. It's intuitive, precise, and beats the pants off of the competing products. The diagrams of tongue positions inside the mouth for the different sounds have been especially helpful, but I strongly recommend that you use a mirror while practicing. If you work really hard with this method, you may even be able to fool people into thinking that you're an American. Thank you Jane!
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