American Accent Skills Book 1: Intonation, Reductions, Word Connections

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American Accent Skills

Book 1: Intonation, Reductions, Word Connections

• How to instantly become more understandable and sound more pleasing
• How to ask questions and express attitude and nuance
• How to use melody to read numbers and spell aloud

STRESS

What do you stress and how do you do it? Clear guidelines and useful examples for stressing syllables and important words.

PITCH

A visual, musical look at how we “sing” a word or phrase.

RHYTHM

The beat of the language; a jazzy approach to learning verb structures:

• “can” or “can’t”?
• “shoulda” and “Shouldena”

REDUCTIONS

How to reduce vowel sounds in a word; how to reduce words in a sentence; popular conversational phrases:

• gonna
• wanna
• gotta
• Whaddaya…?
• Whadja…?

WORD CONNECTIONS

How to smooth out choppy speech and sound pleasant; easy rules, clear instructions, plenty of examples.