American Accent Training

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How to get rid of your local accent?

When a person learns to speak English (and also other languages), in most cases they are using their native language’s sounds. Because of lack of original English input they are not familiar with English intonation and pronunciation. That’s because they were learning grammar and word lists instead of a lot of original English listening. They had weak exposure to the language and even if they had a good marks at the English tests, they could not speak well. Most of English learners are using their native language’s “speech rules” of pronunciation (and sometimes even grammar) on their new language. This is what gives them an accent. They are not aware of what the American or British  “speech rules” is. That’s because they were never taught of this sort of things at school. Their teachers probably were not native English speakers and they were not aware about such things also.

Like a lot of things, the accent could be corrected. The good news is, you don’t need a lot of time to correct it. If you take a trouble to train your accent every day, accent reduction takes 15 minutes a day. That’s enough. The most important thing – you must follow an American accent program every day. You can download and read the whole e-Book, which correspond the American accent training course of Esther Bruhl, toll free. All you need is to put your e-mail address into the box on the right side and click the button “Get manual now”.

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American accent is a combination of three main components: intonation, liaisons, and pronunciation.

Intonation, or speech music, is the sound that you hear when you hear a conversation, but you can not understand what it is all about, because you can’t identify meaning of words and phrases, but you can tell the nationality of the speakers, because every single nationality have their own unique intonation.

The American intonation dictates liaisons and pronunciation. By liaisons I mean word connections or sound units (how these words are come together in the form of phrases or how they are connected to the sound units). Americans do not speak word by word. The individual words are connected to the sound units.
Pronunciation is the spoken sounds of vowels and consonants and different combinations. Pronunciation is not so big deal. If your intonation is close to the intonation of the native speakers, they usually can understand you even if your pronunciation is far from excellent.

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