AMERICAN ACCENT TRAINING

(AMERICA NAEKSENT TRAINING)

1. What is accent?

• Intonation (speech music)
• Liaisons (word connections)
• Pronunciation (sounds of vowels, consonants, and combinations)

2. LISTEN
BETTER

3. BUSINESS
POOL

4. Exaggerate

5. Tense vowels

• Take
• Eat
• Ice
• Hope
• Smooth
• Caught
• Cat
• Down

6. Lax vowels

• Get
• It
• Took
• Some

7. Semi vowel

• Her
• Dull

8. Voiced and unvoiced consonants: initial, medial, final
9. American intonation

• Do not speak word by word
• Connect words to form sound groups: Bob is on the phone = Ba bisan the foun

up stair

• Use staircase intonation: We and cases.

go down