CD1-1 American accent training
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Welcome to American Accent Training. This book and CD t is designed to get you started on your American accent. We'll follow the book and go through the 13 lessons and all the exercis step by step. Everything is explained and a complete Answer Key may be found in the back of the text.
一体机和台式机哪个好What Is Accent?
Accent is a combination of three main components: intonation (speech music), liaisons (word connections), and pronunciation (the spoken sounds of vowels, consonants, and combinations). As you go along, you'll notice that you're being asked to look at accent in a different way. You'll also realize that the grammar you studied before and this accent you're studying now are completely different. Part of the difference is that grammar and vocabulary are systematic and structured— the letter of the language. Accent, on the other
hand, is free form, intuitive, and creative— more the spirit of the language. So, thinking of music, feeling, and flow, let your mouth relax into the American accent.
Can I Learn a New Accent?
Can a person actually learn a new accent? Many people feel that after a certain age, it's just not possible. Can classical musicians play jazz? If they practice, of cour they can! For your American accent, it's just a matter of learning and practicing techniques this book and CD t will teach you. It is up to you to u them or not. How well you do depends mainly on how open and willing you are to sounding different from the way you have sounded all your life.
A very important thing you need to remember is that you can u your accent to say what you mean and how you mean it. Word stress conveys meaning through tone or feeling, which can be much more important than the actual words that you u. We'll cover the expression of the feelings through intonation in the first lesson.
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You may have noticed that I talk fast and often run my words together. You've probably heard enough "English-teacher English"—where ... everything ... is ... pronounced without having to listen too carefully. That's why on the CDs we're going to talk just like the native speakers that we are, in a normal conversational tone.
金鸿钧Native speakers may often tell people who are learning English to "slow down" and to "speak clearly." This is meant with the best of intentions, but it is exactly the opposite of what a student really needs to do. If you speak fairly quickly and with strong intonation, you will be understood more easily. To illustrate this point, you will hear a Vietname student first trying to speak slowly and carefully and then repeating the same words quickly and with strong intonation. Studying, this exerci took her only about two minutes to practice, but the difference makes her sound as if she had been in America for many years.
V Plea listen. You will hear the same words twice. Hello, my name is Muoi. I'm taking American
兰花浇水的正确方法Accent Training.
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iv You may have to listen to this CD a couple of times to catch everything. To help you, every word on the CD is also written in the book. By eing and hearing simultaneously, you'll learn to reconcile the differences between the appearance of English (spelling) and the sound of English (pronunciation and the other aspects of accent). The CD leaves a rather short pau for you to repeat into. The point of this is to get you responding quickly and without spending too much time thinking about your respon. 巨蟹座和水瓶座
Accent versus Pronunciation
Many people equate accent with pronunciation. I don't feel this to be true at all. America is a big country, and while the pronunciation varies from the East Coast to the West Coast, from the southern to the northern states, two components that are uniquely American stay basically the same—the speech music, or intonation, and the word connections or liaisons. Throughout this program, we will focus on them. In the latter part of the book we will work on pronunciation concepts, such as Cat? Caught? Cut? and Bett
y Bought a Bit of Better Butter; we also will work our way through some of the difficult sounds, such as TH, the American R, the L, V, and Z.
"Which Accent Is Correct?"
American Accent Training was created to help people "sound American" for lectures, interviews, teaching, business situations, and general daily communication. Although America has many regional pronunciation differences, the accent you will learn is that of standard American English as spoken and understood by the majority of educated native speakers in the United States. Don't worry that you will sound slangy or too casual becau you most definitely won't. This is the way a professor lectures to a class, the way a national newscaster broadcasts, the way that is most
防控措施comfortable and familiar to the majority of native speakers.
"Why Is My Accent So Bad?"
Learners can be riously hampered by a negative outlook, so I'll address this very impor
tant point early. First, your accent is not bad; it is nonstandard to the American ear. There is a joke that goes:
