The American Accent Learnway Use the Essential Sounds

Learn about the American Voice, it’s characteristics and how to produce it. Then, learn to articulate and modulate the different vowel and consonant sounds the American way. These are often articulated differently, in local ways.
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Contents: This publication, "The American Accent Learnway – Use the Essential Sounds" is the second of three modules comprising "The American Accent Learnway – Cross the Bridge, Over the Divide", i.e. Coursebook One of the American Accent Learnway. The modules enable you to complete Coursebook One in segments. The present Module 2, takes you from where Module 1 leaves off to the two-third point of the Accent change journey.

Note: Because of the distribution of content across the modules, some content is repeated and presented in different modules in a logical order for reader convenience. Numbering is retained from Coursebook One for consistency, though at times at a different location from the original sequence.

Part 2: The Way American English Is Spoken.

  • Chapter 11. Lane 3: Characteristics of the American Voice. - pg 9.
  • Chapter 12. Lane 4: The Way Americans Articulate Vowel and Consonant Sounds. - pg 13.
  • Section: An Overview of the Vocal Fidelity Phonetic System - pg 16.
  • Section: Vocal Fidelity Phonetic System – Pauses - pg 17.
  • Section: Introducing Vowels and Consonants - pg 17.
  • Section: Vowel Forms and Symbols - pg 18.
  • Section: Vowel Sequence Vocalization - pg 31.
  • Section: Vocal Fidelity Phonetic System – Vowel Modulations - pg 32.
  • Section: Word Ending Vowel Sounds Said the American Way - pg 38.
  • Section: Understanding Consonants and Consonant Sounds - pg 41.
  • Section: The Accentuation of Consonants - pg 42.
  • Section: The American Consonant Accentuation Principle - pg 50.
  • Section: Distinctive Consonant Sounds in the American Accent - pg 57.
  • Section: Less Different American Consonant Sounds - pg 62.
  • Chapter 13. Plotting your Progress: Traversing the Lanes. - pg 64.

Part 6: Appendices.

  • A. Vocal Fidelity Phonetic System: Pauses and Syllables - pg 66.
  • B. Vocal Fidelity Phonetic System: Scripting Conventions For Vowel Sounds - pg 67.
  • C. Vocal Fidelity Phonetic System: Scripting Conventions For Consonant Sounds - pg 70.
  • A. Vocal Fidelity Phonetic System: Scripting Conventions Applied: Phonetic Symbols For Vowel Sounds - pg 78.
  • B. Vocal Fidelity Phonetic System: Scripting Conventions Applied: Phonetic Symbols For Vowel Sequences - pg 83.
  • A. Vocal Fidelity Phonetic System: Consonant Inherent Attributes - pg 86.
  • B. Vocal Fidelity Phonetic System: Inherent Attributes Of Each Consonant Sound - pg 91.
  • C. Vocal Fidelity Phonetic System: Phonetic Symbols For Consonant Sounds - pg 98.

About the Author. - pg 110

Requirements

  • You should already know good English.
  • You should be able to read and learn from college-level text and reference books.
  • You should have completed Module 1 – "The American Accent Learnway – Set the Right Foundation".

Author

Adil Rehman

The American Accent Learnway
It is relevant to share a bit about my own language development, my education and career – the context that led me to devote myself full-time, for many years, to the creation of this Course. I grew up in India where I went through most of my education. Though my parents came from different language backgrounds, the language spoken at home was...

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The American Accent Learnway

Specially developed for comprehensive Accent Change
Decades ago, when I was in college, reading in the area of Linguistics I remember wondering why there was not a kind of dictionary that would enable people to look up repetitive speech patterns that would enable them to speak in a globally well-understood English Accent. Behind that thought was that some Accents are favored while others are...
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What's Included

Type: Book
File Size: 4M
Pages: 112
Language: English
Level: Intermediate
Skills: Voice Moderation Abilities, Recognition and Articulation of the Different Vowel Sounds the American Way, Recognition and Articulation of the Different Consonant Sounds the American Way, Using the Vocal Fidelity Phonetic System to Vocalize the American Way
Age groups: 18+ years

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