Improve Your American English Accent : Overcoming Major Obstacles to Understanding 1st Edition

As an ESL teacher, I have found this to be the most affordable and effective program I have ever used with my university students and with private students as well. I do find that there are not enough practices as the booklet accompanying the CDs is just a narrow volume but the practice sections, though limited in quantity, are of excellent quality. I have found that I can supplement the practice sections with other texts. The narrator has a friendly quality to her voice and I have been repeatedly listening to the CDs with numerous students yet I am still not tired of hearing her voice. In one or two places on the CDs the narrator demonstrates "close" vowel sounds, and I cannot hear the difference because of poor production quality in a couple of spots. But, as I am following along in the text, I stop the CD and go over those few sounds with my students. In spite of this failing in one or two places on the CD, I would highly recommend this well organized and otherwise well presented program above all the others that I have used. My students have demonstrated noticeable improvement in a very short period of time and they all have mentioned that they enjoy the program and find it "very useful," easy to understand, and reasonably priced.

I have all CDS of English Pronunciations, and it seems a lot of people think that American English Training by Ann Cook is the best. That's not really true, though, because in my opinion Ann Cook more focuses on Intonation rather than teaching how to say and find the differences among words correctly. I still do like an Improve Your American English Accent by Charlie Child is better.

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It took a few days but at the end I receive the package in good condition all original stuff and working.Great curse easy to use and understand with a lot of practice audio samples.I recommend it to people who understand English at intermedia level.

I imagine this may be a good tool for a non English speaking person. But I've found it doesn't really work for me.

This is a great product to shun the foreign inveterate accent. To deal with the complete program, you must need a plethora of patience, because is really demanding. However, when you finish; you will feel great, more confident and less belligerent about your accent, because it is gone.

Excellent material to improve my pronunciations skills.

Vary good!I had the entire program done in my car during commuting.The autonomous sensory meridian response provoked by the narrator's voice hooks you up.

Fantastic book and audio

I have thoroughly enjoyed the exercises and have also recommended the course to some students who gave me positive feedback.

only cdnot worth it

The booklet is short but the information is great.Easily explained. It would be more than perfect if it would have the phonetic pronunciationnext of the world. (It is good for hard ears as mine).My girlfriend and I have found this book much better than the cambride one 4 pronunciation.Money well spend.

too basicI couldnt learn what I was looking for - the melody & toning of American English.