Accent Reduction For Professionals: How to Eliminate Your Accent to Sound More American
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Strong Accents Can Affect Hiring Chances
In "Accent Reduction For Professionals", you'll discover secrets of reducing – and eliminating – your foreign accent.
Envision the ability to present a contract or proposal to your colleagues and not worrying about how you sound, confident in knowing that you've effectively masked your tell-tale accent and how everyone is listening to what you are saying and not how you're saying. With this guide, you'll quickly learn the easiest ways to sound more like an American and dramatically improve the way you sound.
What insights can you be assured of learning when you read and implement the tips, tricks, and techniques revealed in this concise book?
• 8 secrets to quickly and effortlessly reducing your accent
• The Number 1 method of acquiring not only accent elimination but the intonation and syllable stress of native English speakers.
• What are the sounds that English speakers use daily that are difficult, if not seemingly impossible, for those who are still learning to master the intonation and other nuances of the language
This Guide will Also Reveal How to Overcome:
• The use the "s" or the "z" sounds at the ends of words. (What you didn't know that sometimes the letter "s" could be pronounced as a "z"?)
• The proper pronunciation of perhaps the trickiest sound of all: the "th." With the instructions in this book, you can swiftly conquer this sound and rapidly improve your accent
• The diphthong problem that confuses and confound so many non-native speakers.
• The seemingly insurmountable hard "r" sound. Did you know English is the only language with a true hard "r" sound?
In this revolutionary approach to speaking like a native, you'll discover what in your speech has been holding you back. You'll be able to start implementing these practical tips and others will stand up and take notice immediately.
This Accent Reduction Guide is For You If..
✔ You have a high school diploma
✔ English is not your first language
✔ Public speaking is part of your job
✔ You are trying to get a career that requires perfect accent
✔ Having good communication skill is required in your job
If any one of those sounds familiar to you, perhaps you have found the right book. This book is essential for you to break through and not only improving your spoken skills but developing them so well that you can communicate with others efficiently.
Download This Book Today and Start Manifesting The Career of Your Dream !
Whitney Nelson
Hi! My name is Whitney. I am an international English professor and I have been an English professor of EFL for almost 23 years, during which time I have taught at all levels, and many age groups from Middle School up to adults. I have taught at a few big organizations in Korea and China, Open Universities, technical colleges, and high schools. I take great satisfaction in the fact that I was successful in helping even the weakest students to speak English and dramatically improve the level of many of those I taught. My success in teaching English is a huge part of why I am so confident in giving advice about learning languages. As English has become such an important skill for connecting with the world at large – be it for business, education or pleasure – I am eager to do all I can to support you in reaching your individual goals. www.englishwithwhitney.com
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This has all the material I am looking for in teaching students to recognize individual sounds of English and some basics of how sounds connect in sentences and phrases. the writer seems to think that what students need is to *understand* the differences between sounds in their language and English. That may be a starting point, but understanding what is different is not the same as being able to change the way you speak. But the price is great and there's a lot of info here.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Great price and good quality book. My friend recommend this to me and I am grateful that I got this :
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I would say this is useful ONLY if you put in the time and effort to learn the English language, improving accent takes a lot time. It took me almost 2 years to improve my accent to a point that are on the native speak level.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I use the book to improve the pronunciation and understanding of the American accent, and it was the best acquisition ever made. I recommend it to everyone because the speech is quick, clear and the book is objective in terms of the evolution of the accent. Great Value!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Hello I'm from Brazil and I'm very happy cause I'm getting more and more fluent in English language. Thank you for helping me. I will keep on learning!
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/54 Stars, I find that in information in this book are not bad, but I still have to put in quite a lot of work in order to improve my accent. After watching hundreds of movies and by repeating words thousand times, I did improve my pronunciation.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The shadowing technique is useful. This is great if you are trying to get better for your accent. My R sound has been improved by a lot.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The content is great, but I need more time to Practice, Practice, and more Practice.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5It’s a pretty good book if you want to reduce your accent. Thanks to the author!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I wanted to buy a book to reduce my accent and this book is what I am looking for! Also, the shadowing technique is quite promising I have to say. Recommended~
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Great Read. I'm an American culture coach and I use this book with my clients. My clients are professionals who know their areas of expertise very well, but know they aren't always understood in the workplace. the writer seems to think that what students need is to *understand* the differences between sounds in their language and English. That may be a starting point, but understanding what is different is not the same as being able to change the way you speak. But the price is great and there's a lot of info here.
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Accent Reduction For Professionals - Whitney Nelson
Accent Reduction For Professionals
How to eliminate your accent to sound more American
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Whitney Nelson
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Working with Your Accent
What is an Accent?
Why are some Sounds Difficult for Some Individuals?
Is Eliminating Accent Really Necessary?
When Problems Turn Into Barriers
What’s In This Book to Help You?
Chapter 1: Is Your Strong Accent Preventing you from Getting your Perfect Job?
Not Really a Conspiracy
Going for the Interview
Chapter 2: Can you Hear That? Placing Stress on the Proper Syllables
It’s not Always the First
Words with Three or more Syllables
Noun versus Verb: Oh, the Stress!
Looking Within: the Sentence that is!
Syllables: Still More Secrets to Reveal
When Words End in ion
Chapter 3: Learning the Sounds of the Vowels
Let’s Start with A
EEK!: Listening to the Long E Sound
Listen to the Long I Sound
Oh, No! The Long O Sound
The Long U Sound
Chapter 4: Considering the Soft Palate
If not the nose, where?
Limited Jaw Movement
Chapter 5: Learning about the R
Sound: It’s Trickier than you Think
Checking out the ar
Sound
Exploring the Air
Sound
Chapter 6: Conquering the th
sound
How to Pronounce these Sounds
An Alternative Method
Consider this: Continuous Consonants
The Good News about the the
Sound
Examples of Voiced th
Sounds
Are You Making any of these Errors?
Chapter 7: Discovering Diphthongs
A Difference you can Feel
Chapter 8: Putting it All Together
Chapter 9: Reverse Accent Mimicry
Chapter: 10: 8 Secrets to Accent Reduction
Conclusion
A Tedious Job
*Bonus*
Chapter 1: Getting Over the Plateau to Become a Fluent English Speaker
5 Myths That May Be Hindering Your English Fluency
What Are Your Personal Myths?
Chapter 2: Setting S.M.A.R.T. Goals—The Secret of Getting What You Want When You Want It
S.M.A.R.T
The Need for Flexibility
Chapter 3: Immerse Yourself in the English Language
The Only Way to Learn English
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It may frustrate you endlessly – especially as a professional with goals of being successful in your career. The fact that many find your accent charming
doesn’t compensate much. It certainly doesn’t mean it’ll make you successful.
Of course, your accent is less than charming when it prevents someone from understanding what you’re saying. It’s less than charming when you find yourself repeating yourself. It’s especially frustrating and less than charming when you discover that your accent is actually preventing you from advancing in your chosen career.
While this book is useful to all individuals who wish to reduce their accent and sound more like a native speaker, it’s written with the professional individual in mind. If your English language skills are solid, your grasp of the vocabulary solid and you’re comfortable speaking the language itself, then you may very well be searching for the last piece of the puzzle. Eliminating the accent so you can not only be understood a bit more easily, but feel like you’re a better fit into your office environment.
As sad as it may seem, a strong accent when speaking English can actually keep you from achieving your career goals as well as reaching your full potential. It has been proven that when some individuals continually ask you to repeat yourself, it can lower your chances of professional advancement. In other words, enunciating your words and using correct grammar are two requirements to conquer the business world today.
I know how serious you are about your career. Because of this, I also know how serious you are about improving both your pronunciation and in the process reducing and eliminating your accent. This book deals specifically with helping you speak more