American English Accent Reduction for Asians, Latin Americans, Brasilians, Japanese,

Mexicans, Koreans, Europeans and people from all countries

You know English quite well. However sometimes Americans just don't understand you.
With these resources you will speak well and be understood too.

Recently the American workplace has been transformed by the presence of thousands of Computer Programmers, Help Desk personnel, Systems Developers, Program Testing personnel and Electrical Engineers and restaurant workers from other countries.
A mastery of written and spoken American English will improve one's chances of success in the American business world.
This is the site where people from Asia, Europe and Latin America can make their American English sound more like that of Americans.

• Work on your pronunciation
• Work on your accent
• Work on your grammar

Everyone has an accent. No accent is better than another. Some people will understand one accent better than another.
This page was last updated March 08 2008.

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Books for enhancing one's English Top of Page Accent America! Essentials: Quick Steps to Pronouncing English with an American Accent (Audio CD) By Dorothy M., Ph.D. Taguchi Book and CD help the non-native speaker of English achieve an American accent. Inspect/Order Accent America! Essentials: Quick Steps to Pronouncing English with an American Accent (Audio CD) Living Language Speakup!: Asian, Indian & Middle Eastern Accent Elimination Program By Sam Chwat Using a unique, natural approach, this three-hour audio program with a 272-page manual -- explains the contrasts between Asian, Indian & Middle Eastern and American accents -- identifies and corrects frequently mispronounced vowel and consonant sounds. Inspect/Order Living Language Speakup!: Asian, Indian & Middle Eastern Accent Elimination Program Clear Speech Student's book: Pronunciation and Listening Comprehension in American English By Judy B. Gilbert This is a good course. Not too much, not too little. A highly successful and innovative pronunciation course. Inspect/Order Clear Speech Student's book: Pronunciation and Listening Comprehension in American English

Living Language Speakup!: Asian, Indian & Middle Eastern Accent Elimination Program By Sam Chwat Using a unique, natural approach, this three-hour audio program with a 272-page manual -- explains the contrasts between Asian, Indian & Middle Eastern and American accents -- identifies and corrects frequently mispronounced vowel and consonant sounds. Inspect/Order Living Language Speakup!: Asian, Indian & Middle Eastern Accent Elimination Program

Clear Speech Student's book: Pronunciation and Listening Comprehension in American English By Judy B. Gilbert This is a good course. Not too much, not too little. A highly successful and innovative pronunciation course. Inspect/Order Clear Speech Student's book: Pronunciation and Listening Comprehension in American English

Clear Speech Cassettes (2): Pronunciation and Listening Comprehension in American English By Judy B. Gilbert Audio Cassette. Gives immediate practical feedback. Emphasis is on rhythm, stress, and intonation. Recommended for intermediate or advanced students who want to get rid of their "accent". Inspect/Order Clear Speech Cassettes (2): Pronunciation and Listening Comprehension in American English

Pronunciation Contrasts in English By Don L. F. Nilsen Vowel and consonant contrasts, each with phonetic diagrams and descriptions, minimal pairs (both isolated and in sentences), and specific languages for which the contrast may be problematic. Inspect/Order Pronunciation Contrasts in English

Lose Your Accent In 28 Days By Judy Ravin An audio CD, computer CD-ROM, book with carrying case. Hear the sounds of American English on the CD. See the position of your lips and tongue on the CD-ROM. Learn techniques for correct pronunciation from the book. Currently under $38 used at Amazon.com! Inspect/Order Lose Your Accent In 28 Days

Accent Reduction Made Easy By Jane Wellborn/Penton Overseas Audio Cassette course plus an 88 page book. This low-priced course will help you sound like an American. Inspect/Order Accent Reduction Made Easy

Pronunciation Games By Mark Hancock This book makes learning pronunciation fun. Suggest that your English teacher buy this book and use it when teaching you. Inspect/Order Pronunciation Games

Clear Speech from the Start: Basic Pronunciation and Listening Comprehension in North American English By Judy B. Gilbert Audio Cassette course. Emphasizes the pronunciation aspects that will produce the best results for the least effort and that will help a person to be understood. A beginner with ESL can have success with English pronunciation. Inspect/Order Clear Speech from the Start

Common American Phrases in Everyday Contexts By Richard A. Spears A good way to understand those strange American expressions Inspect/Order Common American Phrases in Everyday Contexts

101 American Customs: Understanding Language and Culture Through Common Practices By Harry Collis American customs certainly seem strange to the newly-arrived. Inspect/Order 101 American Customs: Understanding Language and Culture Through Common Practices

Accurate English: A Complete Course in Pronunciation By Rebecca M. Dauer Enables readers to improve their pronunciation of English so they can be understood effortlessly by native speakers. Inspect/Order Accurate English: A Complete Course in Pronunciation

American English Pronunciation: It's No Good Unless You're Understood - 1 By Donna Hope For reducing accent. It teaches vowel and consonant sounds as Americans speak them. Audio cassette and book. Inspect/Order American English Pronunciation: It's No Good Unless You're Understood - 1

American English Pronunciation: It's No Good Unless You're Understood - 2 By Donna Hope The book is about the way Americans speak: sound transitions and blendings. Audio cassette and book. Inspect/Order American English Pronunciation: It's No Good Unless You're Understood - 2

American English Pronunciation: It's No Good Unless You're Understood - 3 By Donna Hope Practice the consonants and vowels and learn idiomatic expressions at the same time. Audio cassette and book. Inspect/Order American English Pronunciation: It's No Good Unless You're Understood - 3

English Pronunciation for Japanese Speakers. By Paulette Dale This book shows how to overcome the specific pronunciation problems Japanese speakers have when they speak English. Inspect/Order English Pronunciation for Japanese Speakers

Learn English the Fast and Fun Way for Russian Speakers, Book and Cassettes Package By Thomas R. Beyer Get both the book and 4 audiocassettes that help Russian speakers cope with American English pronunciation and listening comprehension. About $27. Inspect/Order Learn English the Fast and Fun Way for Russian Speakers

Speak American: A Survival Guide to the Language and Culture of the U.S.A. By Dileri Borunda Johnston For newcomers to the United States and American-style English. There is information on American cultural things. Inspect/Order Speak American: A Survival Guide to the Language and Culture of the U.S.A.

American Accent Training By Ann Cook With 5 audio CDs, and a mirror for checking on the position of your lips! Learn how to speak with a standard American Accent. This is the best-selling book on American accent on this site. It it based on sound linguistic and phonetic principles. It goes into greater depth than most courses. If you seriously want to eliminate "foreign accent" this is the course for you. Explains and overcomes the unique problems encountered by Indians and speakers of Arabic, Spanish, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, and French. Great for serious self-study, or for use in a class with a teacher. Inspect/Order American Accent Training

Barron's Guide to American Business English By Andrea B. Geffner Great for newcomers to American business practices. Inspect/Order Barron's Guide to American Business English

Pronounce It Perfectly in English By Jean Yates A cassette and a book which will help you toward better pronunciation. Inspect/Order Pronounce It Perfectly in English

Living LanguageŽ American English Pronunciation Program! By Barbara Raifsnider Simple explanations of the sounds of English and how they're combined in words and sentences. Practice with cassettes. Inspect/Order Living LanguageŽ American English Pronunciation Program!

101 American English Idioms: Understanding and Speaking English Like an American (Listen & Learn) By Harry Collis Many American idioms, some out of date. Inspect/Order 101 American English Idioms

Book & Cassettes. The American Accent Guide has received excellent customer reviews at Amazon.com.

ABC Pronunciary: American English Pronunciation Dictionary (CD-ROM) By Vocalis With ABC Pronunciary, an interactive CD-ROM, you can learn the pronunciation of the English alphabet. Inspect/Order ABC Pronunciary

Perfect English Pronunciation: How to Pronounce Consonants By Donald Novey MD VHS video cassette. It shows you how to make the exact sounds of consonants. It tells you how to make the exact sounds with demonstrations and animations in a video. Inspect/Order Perfect English Pronunciation: Consonants

Perfect English Pronunciation: How to Pronounce Vowels, Diphthongs, and Word Endings By Donald Novey MD VHS video cassette. It shows you how to make the exact sounds of vowels and diphthongs. Inspect/Order Perfect English Pronunciation: Vowels

Improve Your American English Accent: Overcoming Major Obstacles to Understanding By Charlsie Childs Be understood better with American English. This book helps you to be understood by correcting the biggest obstacles to understanding. Contains 3 CD's for your practice. Inspect/Order Improve Your American English Accent

The American Accent Guide, Second Edition: A Complete and Comprehensive Course on the Pronunciation and Speaking Style of American English for Individuals of All Language Backgrounds / book and 8 CDs By Beverly A. Lujan An effective course that gives you a real American Accent. Reader reviews are a solid 5! How the sound system of American English works. Published in 2004. 8 CDs with male and female voices. Inspect/Order The American Accent Guide

Accent Modification Manual: Materials and Activities By Harold T. Edwards How does American English intonation work? Concentrates on which word is stressed in an utterance, tonal pitch, joining words, blending sounds. Learn how and improve how people understand you. Inspect/Order Accent Modification Manual: Materials and Activities

Speaking Your Best, A Self-Study Accent Reduction Program for Arabic Speakers By Cheryl A. Posey A self-study accent reduction program for Arabic speakers. Audio Cassette. 4-90 minute practice tapes contain 24 selected lessons that assist you to produce sounds usually mispronounced when the speaker of Arabic speaks American English. Inspect/Order Speaking Your Best

Websites for enhancing one's English Top of Page Hear the sounds of American English from Fonetiks.org Hear the sounds of English. "British accent" from Ship or Sheep.com Good English and Spanish Phonetics. See how sounds are produced. at About.com Illustration of the terminology of phonetics of American English from University of Iowa. English pronunciation Words pronounced differently according to meaning, whether they are used as a verb or as a noun English pronunciation Words pronounced differently according to meaning, whether they are used as a verb or as a noun English pronunciation (heteronyms) Words pronounced differently according to meaning English pronunciation From Washington.edu Listen to the vowel sounds of American English. Problems in pronouncing English experienced by speakers of other languages from Answers.com Type the Phonetic Alphabet from Hopkins-business-communication-training.com You can then copy and paste the symbols into Word. Type the Phonetic Alphabet from Typeit.org You can then copy and paste the symbols into Word. Hear the sounds of the Phonetic Alphabet from Hopkins-business-communication-training.com Short articles that you can read and listen to. They are read with a British accent from breakingnewsenglish.com Short articles that you can read and listen to. They are read with an American accent from Ship or Sheep.com Watch short videos and learn how to make the sounds of English from Okanagan University College English intonation. Which words are stressed By Frank Gerace Ph.D English intonation. Which words are stressed from About.com English intonation. Which words are stressed from Internet TESL Journal English intonation. Practicing stress and intonation from About.com Short description of word stress in a sentence from Americanaccent.com

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