There are numbers of products for teaching non-native English speakers. If you are an Asian speaking English as 2nd language, can you recommend a product or a company that has taught them the American accent the QUICKEST (ideally in about in about 3 months but THE QUICKER THE MORE DESIRABLE).
If you have succeeded in American accent training, what tips can you suggest as to the amount of time you need to devote for training, how to change your speach habit and etc. Can it done by oneself with audio CDs? How much the age and personality affect the sucess rate of training?
In the American Accent Traing from Barrons, it says Americans move lips and jaws less than the rest of world. So if you bite your teeth when you accent train, you will sound more like a native English speaking American, and less like Chinese, Korean or Japanese. I'd like to get some tips like this based on your experience if you've succeeded. Some say accent training is a life-long practice particularly if you are
2006-08-26
16:18:47
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an adult. Some never succeed despite accent traing, and a good number doesn't care or just learn to live with Asian accent.
2006-08-26
16:20:15 ·
update #1
To clarify my question, I'd like to learn "Standard American Accent" or Midwestern accent as American Linguists say. (Of course, I know American is not a language otherwise I would not be typing in English alpahabet.) As for the regional accent variation, I think the variation is mostly in pronunciation, but to my knowledge the speech music/intonation is pretty much the same acorss the entire country.
2006-08-26
16:32:50 ·
update #2