Get Rid of your Accent for Beginners

by Linda James, Olga Smith

This book will help you to neutralize a foreign or regional accent and master Received Pronunciation (known in the past as Queen's English, BBC English or Oxford English).
This book contains essential English vocabulary and is very useful for people with different levels of English from beginners to advanced because everybody uses essential vocabulary. The book is based on tried and tested methods used in London drama schools for decades. The book contains a concise description of speech organ positions for all English sounds and plenty of useful phrases, humorous poems, and short prose passages to help you practice your English accent.

This new book includes all the techniques that you need for accent reduction:

1. Learn and practice English sounds and essential vocabulary to master a British accent
2. Practice English intonation and sentence stress
3. Learn and use connected speech patterns
4. Practice difficult consonant clusters and word endings
5. Learn about silent letters in English spellings

Students are advised to purchase this book with its Audible version or an app called English Accent for Beginners.

214 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 28, 2019