Lose Your Accent in 28 Days: A Complete System, with Audio CD & CD-ROM

by Judy Ravin

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0972530045
• ISBN13: 9780972530040
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Language Success Press
• Length: 98 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Great book!!

The CD-ROM contains pronunciation of every consnents and vowels with video demonstrations. It definitely works!!. Other accent reduction books just show you pictures and descriptions, but you'll never understand it unless you are studying with native speaker. However, This book is great when you are studying along, it is like having a private tutor!. CD-ROM and Audio CD are great, however, the workbook contains very little amount of information. This book is basically all about the basic pronunciation. So i recommend you to start with this book and then workout with 'American Accent Training'. It is another great material, however it has very different purposes and methods. it is more focused on the intonation. Although it is a great book, you might hesitate to buy it because of its price. Then Listen up, I have a great news!. I looked up the databases of local community libraries, and most of them has this book. So you can study it for free. Once you check this book out, you'll definitely want to buy it! Changing pronunciation takes long time and needs exercise everyday. But it's not painful at all, it fun and easy. just give it a shot, you'll love it!

It worked!

I was tired of being asked where I was from the moment I opened my mouth and of being treated as a tourist in what I consider my own country now. Then I found this toolkit and it did miracles - people no longer ask me where I'm from, I am at much more ease to express myself and I feel much happier and more accepted. Here is how I used this material to achieve my results. I spend about 1.5 hours every day (now I'm down to about an hour) doing all the vowel exercises, where my geatest difficulties are. Each day I do ALL vowel exercises (takes less than an hour) and a few other exercises. I've been doing this for a couple months now, even though I got the desired results within a month. The tough part is that if I skip just one day my accent comes back - to a much lesser extent, but enough to be asked where I'm from. So, I guess it will take a while. You may also want to buy "American Accent Training" by Ann Cook, which got tons of valuable tips on intonation patterns, while Judy Ravin's kit is focused mainly on pronunciation. Personally, I found it easier to work on my pronunciation first. Once I got the pronunciation down, I gained a lot more confidence to play with my intonation as well.

Lose Your Accent in 28 Days

In spite of the fact that I am a professor of English with 8 years of teaching experience and that I have been living in Canada for 4 years, people kept asking me the question: "Where are you from?" on a daily basis. It was my accent that always gave me away. However, having done the exercises in "Lose Your Accent in 28 Days" people no longer ask me about my origins. I learned in a very easy way the proper pronunciation of those critical sounds that posed difficulty for me. I especially liked the CD-ROM that comes with the workbook as it is extremely easy to use and very straightforward in presenting, through pictures, the correct placement of the jaw, lips and tongue when articulating vowels and consonants. Highly recommended.

Applicable to students of all language backgrounds

Having taught English as a Second Language and Accent Reduction Techniques from more than a decade at universities and for corporations, Judy Ravin is the also CEO of English Communication Services, an accent reduction training company. In Lose Your Accent In 28 Days, linquistics expert Judy Ravin draws upon her many years of professional experience to develop a system for accent reductions that includes an instruction book enhanced with an interactive CD-ROM and an audio CD that shows the learner how to produce the sounds of the English language. This provision of a visual and audio reinforcement to the typical audio cassette for language instruction is a major advance, along with Ravin's provision of 80 distinct techniques for better pronunciation. Lose Your Accent In 28 Days is applicable to students of all language backgrounds and would be of special value for immigrants aspiring to succeed in the American corporate, academic, broadcast journalism, or entertainment industries.