American Accent Self-paced Training
Imagine yourself as a clear, crisp, confident speaker
of American English.
Our educational products were developed for professionals like
you who are serious about significantly improving their English
pronunciation and speech.
Master troublesome sounds, reduce your accent, and communicate with ease in any
setting where American English is spoken.
This comprehensive array of products, which includes video, audio, and workbook, enables you to learn at your own pace. Business professionals who use these products tell us that they appreciate the rigorous and methodical instruction.
American Accent for Success
in Business: A Complete Video
CD-ROM Course
Price: $49.95
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Watch and learn!
This Video CD-ROM is the next best thing to having a tutor. Just insert the disc and follow the easy instructions to install on your computer. Watch and imitate Jolinda Osborne as she demonstrates how to produce all of the sounds of American English. Make noticeable improvement in your diction and accent modification as you practice the work-related exercises in each module. Watch the introduction to this course.
- Retrain your mouth to correctly produce all the sounds of American English as you follow a trained teacher’s video demonstrations.
- Continuously refine your skills through a systematic approach to learning American English.
- Navigate the course by targeting your most difficult sounds, with the help of 22 first-language study guides.
- Improve your pronunciation and business vocabulary through extensive practice exercises, rules and tips.
- Review any instruction in any lesson with a flexible navigation menu.
- Accurately distinguish sounds using the International Phonetic Alphabet of symbols.
- Over 6 hours of instruction on 1 CD-ROM. System Requirements: PC with Windows ’98 (or higher) operating system, RealPlayer, and one of the following browsers: Internet Explorer, Windows Explorer, or Mozilla Firefox. Program is not compatible with MAC.
Improve your Spoken English and Pronunciation: An American Accent
Course for Success in Business
Workbook with free MP3 download
Price: $39.95
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Read, listen and practice
This complete, stand-alone course is designed for the way adults learn. (It can also complement the American Accent for Success in Business: A Complete Video CD-ROM Course.) Educators will find the workbook and audio course ideal for classrooms.
- Learn in depth how to produce all the sounds of American English through detailed instruction, numerous practice exercises with business vocabulary, pronunciation rules, and work-related dialogues.
- Reinforce your learning by both studying the workbook and listening to the free downloadable audio in MP3.
- Practice proper pronunciation, intonation and pacing by following Jolinda Osborne as she instructs and encourages you throughout seven hours of audio instruction.
- Identify and target your most challenging sounds with study guidelines for 22 language groups.
- Accurately distinguish sounds using the International Phonetic Alphabet of symbols.
I talk with a very heavy accent. Thanks to this course my pronunciation is much better and it’s easy for me to communicate with my colleagues and friends. Everybody mentions that my English has improved since I finished the course. I presented to a big audience at the Microsoft Management Summit and got very good feedback about my English.
Ilia Blinder
Engineer
The Director of Operations for
our China Development Center found the American Accent video extremely valuable to new hires who had a great desire to improve their ability to communicate with peers around the world.
Tracey Jerijervi
Former HR Business Partner, IBU, Tektronix
Jolinda Osborne has written a
well-organized book for easy use by both teachers and students where English is being studied as a second language. The book offers many engaging, challenging practice exercises and is supplemented with audio that allows the student to practice between classes. I highly recommend this accent reduction book with audio for both teachers and students.
Nancy Nichols
Teacher, English as a Non-native Language
It is a very good book. It helps me to improve my pronunciation. I have referred it to many Vietnamese and Chinese friends. Now I’m very confident when speaking in front of people at a meeting.
Karen Nguyen
Peer Trainer
English has become the de facto business language of the world. Improve Your Spoken English and Pronunciation is a helpful guide for helping to perfect English pronunciation to make a better first impression. Discussing the stresses of certain words, dealing with troublesome sounds when learning as a native speaker of another language, and enhanced with an audio download to help for a more comprehensive study. Improve Your Spoken English and Pronunciation is a strong pick for anyone who wants a more complete mastery over the English language.
Midwest Book Review
October 2011