Download or read book American English Pronunciation written by Donna Hope and published by . This book was released on 2006-01 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I thought I spoke English . . . until no one understood me." A bit exaggerated? Perhaps. But this statement reflects the experience common to nearly all international speakers of English, regardless of the level of language achieved.This is Book One in a series of three. The series is an accent reduction program for international speakers of English. At the same time, it is rich in both formal and informal American expressions. The program has been based on and proven successful with students from many countries.A softcover text with 2 audio CDs.
Download or read book English Pronunciation written by Donna Hope and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American English Pronunciation written by Donna Hope and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American English Pronunciation It s No Good Unless You re Understood written by Donna Hope and published by . This book was released on 1999-08 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American English Pronunciation written by Donna Hope and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American English Pronunciation written by Donna Hope and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The pronunciation of English varies widely in each English-speaking country. American English Pronunciation focuses on the correct pronunciation of American English. There are three easy-to-use books with audio CDs to help you correct your pronunciation. Students can also learn both formal and informal American expressions and idioms in this series.
Download or read book English Pronunciation written by Donna Hope and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The pronunciation of English varies widely in each English-speaking country. American English Pronunciation focuses on the correct pronunciation of American English. There are three easy-to-use books with audio CDs to help you correct your pronunciation. Students can also learn both formal and informal American expressions and idioms in this series.
Download or read book American English Pronunciation written by Donna Hope and published by . This book was released on 2006-01 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the complete course; it contains Books One, Two and Three combined. The course is an accent reduction program for international speakers of English. At the same time, it is rich in both formal and informal American expressions. And it contains exercises and cultural notes prompted, for the most part, by questions from students themselves. The program is now in its second edition. It has been based on and proven successful during years of work with students from many countries.Softcover textbook with 6 audio CDs.
Download or read book Common Pronunciation Difficulties Observed Among Native Arabic Speakers Learning to Speak English written by Dr. Jamil AbdulHadi and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Common Pronunciation Difficulties Observed among Native Arabic Speakers Learning to Speak English is about the linguistic qualities involved in teaching the science of phonetics. Pronunciation is a concept in English language teaching that has been long overlooked and undertaught. Nevertheless, its importance is the difference between being understood and considered literate or being misunderstood and illiterate.
Download or read book What is English written by Tim William Machan and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-08-23 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is English? Can we be as certain as we usually are when we say something is not English? To find some answers Tim Machan explores the language's present and past, and looks ahead to its futures among the one and a half billion people who speak it. His search is fascinating and important, for definitions of English have influenced education and law in many countries and helped shape the identities of those who live in them. Finding an account that fits the constantly changing varieties of English is, Tim Machan finds, anything but simple. But he rises to the challenge, grappling with its elusive essence through episodes in its history. He looks at the ambitions of Caxton, the preoccupations of Johnson, and the eloquence of Churchill, tussles with the jargons of contemporary business, and pursues his object from rural America to James Cook's Australia. He examines creoles, pidgins, and dialects, and takes apart competing histories showing their assumptions and prejudices. Finally he reveals the stable category English, resting paradoxically within its constantly mutating forms and varieties. This is a book for everyone interested in English and the role of language in society and culture.
Download or read book Words on the Move written by John McWhorter and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bestselling linguist takes us on a lively tour of how the English language is evolving before our eyes -- and why we should embrace this transformation and not fight it Language is always changing -- but we tend not to like it. We understand that new words must be created for new things, but the way English is spoken today rubs many of us the wrong way. Whether it’s the use of literally to mean “figuratively” rather than “by the letter,” or the way young people use LOL and like, or business jargon like What’s the ask? -- it often seems as if the language is deteriorating before our eyes. But the truth is different and a lot less scary, as John McWhorter shows in this delightful and eye-opening exploration of how English has always been in motion and continues to evolve today. Drawing examples from everyday life and employing a generous helping of humor, he shows that these shifts are a natural process common to all languages, and that we should embrace and appreciate these changes, not condemn them. Words on the Move opens our eyes to the surprising backstories to the words and expressions we use every day. Did you know that silly once meant “blessed”? Or that ought was the original past tense of owe? Or that the suffix -ly in adverbs is actually a remnant of the word like? And have you ever wondered why some people from New Orleans sound as if they come from Brooklyn? McWhorter encourages us to marvel at the dynamism and resilience of the English language, and his book offers a lively journey through which we discover that words are ever on the move and our lives are all the richer for it.
Download or read book Manual of American English Pronunciation for Adult Foreign Students written by Clifford H. Prator and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1951.
Download or read book Manual of American English Pronunciation for Adult Foreign Students written by Clifford Holmes Prator and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1951 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Accent Training written by Ann Cook and published by Barron's Educational Series, Incorporated. This book was released on 2000 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Directed to speakers of English as a second language, a multi-media guide to pronouncing American English uses a "pure-sound" approach to speaking to help imitate the fluid ways of American speech.
Download or read book American English Phonetics and Pronunciation Practice written by Paul Carley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-10-16 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American English Phonetics and Pronunciation Practice provides an accessible introduction to basic articulatory phonetics for students of American English. Built around an extensive collection of practice materials, this book teaches the pronunciation of modern standard American English to intermediate and advanced learners worldwide. This book: • provides an up-to-date description of the pronunciation of modern American English; • demonstrates the use of each English phoneme with a selection of high-frequency words, both alone and in context in sentences, idiomatic phrases and dialogues; • provides examples and practice material on commonly confused sounds, including illustrative pronunciation diagrams; • is supported by a companion website featuring complete audio recordings of practice material to check your pronunciation against; • can be used not only for studying pronunciation in the classroom but also for independent practice. American English Phonetics and Pronunciation Practice is essential reading for any student studying this topic.
Download or read book Do You Speak American written by Robert Macneil and published by Nan A. Talese. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is American English in decline? Are regional dialects dying out? Is there a difference between men and women in how they adapt to linguistic variations? These questions, and more, about our language catapulted Robert MacNeil and William Cran—the authors (with Robert McCrum) of the language classic The Story of English—across the country in search of the answers. Do You Speak American? is the tale of their discoveries, which provocatively show how the standard for American English—if a standard exists—is changing quickly and dramatically. On a journey that takes them from the Northeast, through Appalachia and the Deep South, and west to California, the authors observe everyday verbal interactions and in a host of interviews with native speakers glean the linguistic quirks and traditions characteristic of each area. While examining the histories and controversies surrounding both written and spoken American English, they address anxieties and assumptions that, when explored, are highly emotional, such as the growing influence of Spanish as a threat to American English and the special treatment of African-American vernacular English. And, challenging the purists who think grammatical standards are in serious deterioration and that media saturation of our culture is homogenizing our speech, they surprise us with unpredictable responses. With insight and wit, MacNeil and Cran bring us a compelling book that is at once a celebration and a potent study of our singular language. Each wave of immigration has brought new words to enrich the American language. Do you recognize the origin of 1. blunderbuss, sleigh, stoop, coleslaw, boss, waffle? Or 2. dumb, ouch, shyster, check, kaput, scram, bummer? Or 3. phooey, pastrami, glitch, kibbitz, schnozzle? Or 4. broccoli, espresso, pizza, pasta, macaroni, radio? Or 5. smithereens, lollapalooza, speakeasy, hooligan? Or 6. vamoose, chaps, stampede, mustang, ranch, corral? 1. Dutch 2. German 3. Yiddish 4. Italian 5. Irish 6. Spanish
Download or read book Better English Pronunciation written by J. D. O'Connor and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1980-10-23 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A systematic and thorough introduction to the pronunciation of English for use by intermediate and more advanced students.
