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Lose Your Accent in 28 Days (CD-ROM for Windows, Audio CD, and Workbook)
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Average Rating:  out of 9 Reviews
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Price: $49.95
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Sale: $46.95
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Manufacturer: Language Success Pr
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EAN (European Article Number): 9780972530040
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Binding: CD-ROM
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Author: Judy Ravin
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Publisher: Language Success Pr
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Edition: 2nd
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Dewey Decimal Number: 428.34
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Publication Date: 2007-01-30
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Reading Level: 100
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Description: Lose Your Accent in 28 Days is the powerful, proven system that will help you master American English pronunciation in weeks — not months or years. Practice 30 minutes a day for 4 weeks and greatly improve your pronunciation. No more being asked to repeat yourself! No more being asked, "What did you say?" Discover the pronunciation system preferred by faculty and students at America's most prestigious universities — including Cornell, UC Berkeley, Middlebury, and University of Southern California. Lose Your Accent in 28 Days features an interactive CD-ROM that shows you exactly how to pronounce EVERY vowel and consonant through hundreds of video clips. The Audio CD includes over 70 minutes of material on rhythm, stress, and everyday speech patterns. The Workbook offers 80 techniques for better pronunciation. In all, you'll learn from 956 guided examples. What an easy and enjoyable way to lose your accent! Lose Your Accent in 28 Days is complete. There are are no extras to buy. You get all this with your system: - A CD-ROM. Learn to position your mouth and make those difficult vowel and consonant sounds you never thought you could. If you use a system without video, you'll miss the picture. - An Audio CD. Join Ravin and her expert team to practice rhythm, stress and everyday speech patterns. Develop perfect pronunciation and total confidence! - A Workbook. Master pronunciation techniques that will make you sound native-born! People will no longer ask, "What did you say?" - A Carrying Case. Study both at home and on-the-go with this durable and attractive case! Why do people choose this system over the others? * Most accent reduction training systems have audio only. It is very helpful to see the instructor's mouth so you know how to position your own mouth to make the sounds correctly. * Systems that use a video-cassette or DVD do not allow you the incredible flexibility of being able to click with your mouse on the sounds you need to practice...and click over and over again until you've mastered the target sound. * Many systems are complicated and difficult to use. After a few chapters, many people just give up in frustration. Lose Your Accent in 28 Days is clear and user-friendly so you look forward to studying every day. * Lose Your Accent in 28 Days also helps you master new vocabulary as you go. The system includes a handy idioms glossary definining every idiom used in the book.
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Customer Reviews
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Review Summary: It worked! |
Date: 2006-12-23 |
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Details: 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. |
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Review Summary: A video display that carries weight! |
Date: 2006-09-24 |
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Details: How about an accent reduction course that comes with a CD-ROM showing the mouth and lip positions for all the consonant and vowel sounds, plus an audio CD with extensive practice in connected speech, such as blendings and reductions? Great, huh? The CD ROM works really well: both video and sound are very clear. However, intonation is sacrificed for the sake of "clearer" pronunciation of vowels and consonants , as it is the case in final nasal consonants in words such as "working", pronounced with an irritating "g" sound - so forget about using the video on the CD-ROM to practice intonation. But then again it's an excellent visualization tool for the positioning of mouth and lips in consonants and vowels. The overall layout of the book is very pleasant to the eye, with a highlighted box at the beginning of each chapter and clear instructions of the production of the sounds. There's also this Glossary of Idioms at the end of the book , completely dispensed with, as there's no link whatsoever with the preceding chapters. Oh, and the title. Anybody who claims you can lose your accent in 28 days is way off-base. At any rate, the CD-ROM , notwithstanding the annoying over-articulation of some sounds , makes the whole package quite an interesting choice. |
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Review Summary: Lose Your Accent in 28 Days |
Date: 2004-11-13 |
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Details: 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. |
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Review Summary: Applicable to students of all language backgrounds |
Date: 2004-11-10 |
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Details: 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.
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