American English Pronunciation Program (LL (R) ESL) (Audio Cassette)

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Product Description

Improve your English pronunciation quickly, easily, and effectively with the Living Language® American English Pronunciation Program!

For Speakers of English as a Second Language and Native speakers with strong regional accents.

Better pronunciation means better communication - at school, on the job, or in any social setting. Ideal for anyone with a foreign or regional accent, this audio program teaches Standard American Pronunciation the way you'll really hear it. Other pronunciation courses use highly technical linguistic terminology and textbooks full of hard-to-understand charts and diagrams, but the Living Language® American English Pronunciation Program is practical, convenient, and easy to use. You don't need a book or a degree in linguistics. Just listen and repeat!

In this program you'll find:
Six 60-minute cassettes that can be used anywhere at any time:
in the car, on the train, around the house, even at the gym
A 64-page reference guide
Simple explanations of the sounds of English and how they're
combined in words and sentences
Helpful hints on avoiding pitfalls
Rapid conversational English
Plenty of practice with words, phrases, and full sentences

Whether you're a beginner or an intermediate or advanced student of English, or if you're trying to lessen a strong regional accent, the Living Language® American English Pronunciation Program is the key to better pronunciation.

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Improve your English pronunciation quickly, easily, and effectively with the Living Language® American English Pronunciation Program!

For Speakers of English as a Second Language and Native speakers with strong regional accents.

Better pronunciation means better communication - at school, on the job, or in any social setting. Ideal for anyone with a foreign or regional accent, this audio program teaches Standard American Pronunciation the way you'll really hear it. Other pronunciation courses use highly technical linguistic terminology and textbooks full of hard-to-understand charts and diagrams, but the Living Language® American English Pronunciation Program is practical, convenient, and easy to use. You don't need a book or a degree in linguistics. Just listen and repeat!

In this program you'll find:
Six 60-minute cassettes that can be used anywhere at any time:
in the car, on the train, around the house, even at the gym
A 64-page reference guide
Simple explanations of the sounds of English and how they're
combined in words and sentences
Helpful hints on avoiding pitfalls
Rapid conversational English
Plenty of practice with words, phrases, and full sentences

Whether you're a beginner or an intermediate or advanced student of English, or if you're trying to lessen a strong regional accent, the Living Language® American English Pronunciation Program is the key to better pronunciation.

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Product Details

• Audio Cassette
• Publisher: Living Language; Cas & Book edition (March 23, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0609604198
• ISBN-13: 978-0609604199
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 5.6 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,042,761 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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39 of 39 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great if you want a program to listen to while you drive, March 27, 2002

By	Jmark2001 (Florida) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)

There are better programs out there (Sam Chwat has the best accent reduction program for Americans with strong regional accents if you really want to do a thorough job of cleaning up your speech{"thorough" means that you are willing to work hard and put plenty of hours into the course}) but they all require that you look at the text while you listen to the tapes. This is the only program that is self-contained on the cassettes and is completely useful without the booklet that accompanies it. You can use these tapes in your car without ever needing to refer to the text. For this reason, the course is recommended.
If you need help with the "music" and rhythm of American speech, go with Ann Cook's excellent program. If you want to eliminate a southern, Chicago, or New York/New Jersey accent, hunt down Chwat's program. Get this program if you need something to use while driving or jogging and do not have time to study at a desk.

45 of 47 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great program for *BEGINNERS*, June 30, 2000

By	Zygimantas Alsauskas "Zygimantas" (Philadelphia, PA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This is a perfect pronunciation program for beginners or for those with STRONG accents. It really does emphasise main sounds and the things that are most frequently confused. But I was hoping to learn smth more advanced from it. These are very basic things.

If you are an advanced student and you want to eliminate this very slight accent that native speakers DO notice when they hear U speak, this is probably not the best choice. I don't know if there is any program for such people. Maybe you just need to live in a country for a while to perfect your pronunciation and if people don't have trouble understanding what you say, you shouldn't bother at all.

36 of 41 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It is a great program to improve your pronunciation., May 21, 1999

By A Customer

I listened two of six cassettes. It emphasizes the confusions of the pronunciations of vows and consonants, which sound very closely to each other. The program compares the close pairs by choosing word pairs with one or two sounds different, you can hear clearly the difference. And also, those words are put into a short sentences to train your ears. I would say it is a really great program for you, if you really care about your accent. My own background: I begin learnt English from roughly at college, took TOEFL and came to USA 13 years ago for my Ph.D.