Of course both those books have CD's. Without CD's those books would be worthless... Both books are especially about intonation, linking words, reduced sounds and something about pronunciation you can hardly find in books on American

Cvilla wrote: Anonymous wrote: I believe that I haven't missed anything. I think that you don't understand the concept clearly.I agree that (nothing new here) an intonation is one of the most important part of any accent. But in your example

Anonymous wrote: I believe that I haven't missed anything. I think that you don't understand the concept clearly.I agree that (nothing new here) an intonation is one of the most important part of any accent. But in your example it is related to

Hi, yes, there are books that deal with stress, intonation, and pronunciation. I've read "American Accent Training" by Ann Cook. There's really a lot of stuff in that book (and on the 5 CDs). I haven't tried any other books anyway, so I can only

Wow, what a lot of nonesense. Is American English simply lazy English with disregard for the fundamentals of the language, or is it a valid simplification of an overly complex and irregular language? Huh? What are you talking about? I was

I would like to know if you know a web page or a software in order to practice the british accent, intonation and word pronunciation. I love English accent. and I want to practice it and polish it. Thank you in advance!!

Hi hello!!! I guess you are a British native speaker!! I'm from Mexico and I'm delighted with British English mainly the southeast England accent...but wait a couple of days ago I watched the film Millions by Danny Boyle and I had a crush on

The idea of my example was to show that we must first define our initial positions before commencing to a discussion of the details. I tried to differentiate Amercan and British English and in this way negate the principle of 'language change',

Django Cat writes: But *somebody* has to know you're being sarcastic don't they, even if it is isn't the person the sarcasm is aimed at. You may know. It's not necessary that anyone hearing you know. You may even be sarcastic in a

Baytalon writes: I would say it depends on whether or not there ... a distinction is not a part of vernacular American English. Amazingly, a subsequent lesson dealt with detecting _sarcasm_ in intonation! Given that native speakers routinely ask