Northbrook Julian. Awesome Accent. Audiobook

Northbrook Ltd., 2018. — 125 p.The Quick ’n’ Dirty Secrets to Speaking with an Amazing English AccentHow you sound in English matters. Research shows this very clearly. Native speakers judge people with clear, easy to understand accents as proficient in English. Even if in reality they're only beginners. On the other hand, they judge people whose accents are hard to understand as being low-level. Even if they're “advanced” on paper.
So we are going to talk about how you can learn a new accent. Whether it be a British one, an American one or whatever. But know that it’s not necessary to chose an accent and a greater part of this book is going to be to focus on how you can improve your voice and the way you sound regardless of what accent you speak with.Introduction... 1
Credit Where Credit's Due... 2
What’re We Going to Talk about in Awesome Accent?.. 3
A Final Note... 5
Chapter 1
The What, Why and When of Sounding Awesome... 7
The Badge of Identity... 8
What Box Do You Fit In?.. 10
Why Are There so Many British Accents?.. 12
Language Constantly Changes... 13
The Key to Sounding Awesome... 17
Making Your Accent Invisible... 18
Chapter 2
Some Silly Myths... 21
It’s Not Possible to Learn an Accent As an Adult... 21
Why You Might NOT Succeed... 24
I Need to Live in an English Speaking Country to Learn the
Accent... 26
Native Speakers Are Doing It Wrong!.. 29
Give Me a Chicken Soul!.. 30
Japanese Pitch Accent Woes... 31
Chapter 3
The Three Aspects of Sounding Awesome... 33
Perfect Pronunciation?.. 34
The Difference Between Pronunciation and Accent... 35
Adding Intonation to the Mix... 36
Chapter 4
How to Nail Any Accent You Want: The Quick ‘n’ Dirty
Guide... 39
Step 1 - The First Step... 39
Fascination... 41
Step 2 - The Big N... 43
Why You Don’t “Pick Up” Accents... 44
Where to Start?.. 47
Multicultural London English... 49
Be Careful of over Correction... 52
Step 3 - Get Yourself Some Big Wins... 53
Lip My Tights!.. 54
Doing It 80/20 Style... 55
Here’s an Example... 56
Step 4 - Build Motor Skills... 57
A Motor Awareness Exercise... 58
Getting Past the Weird... 60
Before We Move On... 61
Chapter 5
The Laziest Sound in All of Human Speech... 63
The Schwa? What’s That When It’s at Home?.. 64
What Kind of Words Uses This Sound?.. 65
The Uhmazing Kuhbab... 67
Chapter 6
Skipin' Sounds for Fluency... 70
What Is Elision?.. 70
Written English and Spoken English Are Not the Same... 71
Elision Is Variable... 72
Get Good at Spotting Elision... 74
Chapter 7
Become a Maestro of Your Voice... 76
Is It Really Your Accent?.. 77
Become a Conductor of Your Own Voice... 79
Make Your Voice Interesting... 82
Speaking with Unreasonable Confidence... 85
Breathing Your Way to Fluency... 87
Exercises for Becoming a Better Maestro... 89
Exercise 1... 90
Exercise 2... 92
Exercise 3... 95
Chapter 8
Controlling the Feeling in Your Voice... 97
The British Stiff Upper Lip... 97
Lovely Weather We’re Having!.. 100
Monotone... 103
How to Improve Tonal Quality... 105
Afterward... 112
How to Work with Julian... 114
Resources... 115
Course... 116