The Demo Site

 American Accent Training is an audio book designed to get you started on your American accent. It has 13 lesson and the author, Ann Cook started on American Intonation Pattern. Unlike other books, everything that is written on this book is also spoken on the audio at the same time. You can listen to the author while reading the manual.

What is Accent? Ann Cook define Accent as;

 a combination of three main components: intonation (speech music), liaisons (word
connections), and pronunciation (the spoken sounds of vowels, consonants, and combinations). As
you go along, you'll notice that you're being asked to look at accent in a different way. You'll also
realize that the grammar you studied before and this accent you're studying now are completely
different.
Part of the difference is that grammar and vocabulary are systematic and structured— the letter of
the language. Accent, on the other hand, is free form, intuitive, and creative— more the spirit of the
language. So, thinking of music, feeling, and flow, let your mouth relax into the American accent.

Accent versus Pronunciation

Many people equate accent with pronunciation. The author  don't feel this to be true at all. According to her, America is a big  country, and while the pronunciation varies from the East Coast to the West Coast, from the southern to the northern states, two components that are uniquely American stay basically the same—the
speech music, or intonation, and the word connections or liaisons. Throughout this program, you will
focus on them.

American Accent Training was created to help people "sound American" for lectures, interviews,
teaching, business situations, and general daily communication. Although America has many
regional pronunciation differences, the accent you will learn is that of standard American English as
spoken and understood by the majority of educated native speakers in the United States. Don't worry
that you will sound slangy or too casual because you most definitely won't. This is the way a
professor lectures to a class, the way a national newscaster broadcasts, the way that is most
comfortable and familiar to the majority of native speakers.

Listen to the DEMO Below

Exercise 1 -44: Building an Intonation Sentence CD 2 Track 13

Repeat after me the sentences listed in the following groups.


1. I bought a sandwich.

2. I said I bought a sandwich.

3. I said I think I bought a sandwich.

4. I said I really think I bought a sandwich.

5. I said I really think I bought a chicken sandwich.

6. I said I really think I bought a chicken salad sandwich.

7. I said I really think I bought a half a chicken salad sandwich.

8. I said I really think I bought a half a chicken salad sandwich this afternoon.

9. I actually said I really think I bought a half a chicken salad sandwich this afternoon.

10. I actually said I really think I bought another half a chicken salad sandwich this

afternoon.

11. Can you believe I actually said I really think I bought another half a chicken salad

sandwich this afternoon?


1. I did it.

2. I did it again.

3. I already did it again.

4. I think I already did it again.

5. I said I think I already did it again.

6. I said I think I already did it again yesterday.

7. I said I think I already did it again the day before yesterday.

1. I want a ball.

2. I want a large ball.

3. I want a large, red ball.

4. I want a large, red, bouncy ball.

5. I want a large, red bouncy rubber ball.

6. I want a large, red bouncy rubber basketball.



1. I want a raise.

2. I want a big raise.

3. I want a big, impressive raise.

4. I want a big, impressive, annual raise.

5. I want a big, impressive, annual cost of living raise.