American Accent Correction, Analysis and Breakthrough (Includes CD)

Author: Qiu Zhengzheng et al
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Publish Date: 2005-08-01
Features: This book is mainly composed of four chapters. Chapter One is on vowels, which primarily introduces the pronunciation techniques of front vowels, central vowels, back vowels, and diphthongs, along with typical example words and sentences. Chapter Two is on consonants, mainly including stops, fricatives, lateral consonants, nasal consonants, affricates, semivowels, consonant clusters, the pronunciation of "t" in American English, and the pronunciation of special word endings. Chapter Three is on rhythm, which mainly introduces word stress, weak forms, linking, elision, rhythm, and comprehensive rhythm exercises. Chapter Four is on intonation, sequentially introducing rising and falling tones, declarative sentences, interrogative sentences, imperative sentences, exclamatory sentences, compound sentences, and the intonation patterns of grammatical components. Before the main text, the book provides an explanation of its usage, along with a comparison table of American and English phonetic symbols for vowels. It also briefly introduces the guiding principle of the book—the "M7" English Listening and Speaking Teaching Method. The poems, lyrics, and movie dialogues in the appendix are profound in meaning and are all classic works.