Olga Smith has 7 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 7 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4.9★ across 15 ratings. The most-rated is Get Rid of Your Accent: General American.
Get Rid of Your Accent: General American
Summary
This audiobook is a leading accent-reduction toolkit with practical exercises to master a general American accent. It contains explanations on how to form correct English sounds. The audiobook provides extensive practice with words, sentences, and funny verses. This audiobook is compact and easy to use with its 44 short lessons, each devoted to a single phoneme. For each phoneme, there is a list of words containing the target sound, a list of sentences, a few verses, a few tongue-twisters, and some articulation exercises. The more you listen, the better your pronunciation becomes, because you get a feeling for how words should be pronounced. After the listening phase, try to repeat as many times as you can: again, practice makes perfect! A bit every day is much better than a lot only once a week, so try to be consistent and your efforts will be repaid. You'll soon see that the right pronunciation will come perfectly naturally to you. The pluses are that you can study pronunciation whenever and wherever you are (during your commuting time, for example). Another useful feature is that the verses and tongue-twisters are a bit silly and very amusing, so you won't get bored!
©2014 Olga Smith BATCS (P)2014 Olga Smith BATCS
Get Rid of Your Accent: Part One and Two
Summary
Get Rid of Your Accent is a phenomenon. Both native and non-native English actors, lawyers, brokers, businessmen, and diplomats have flourished with our help. This audiobook is a leading accent reduction training manual with practical exercises to master general American accent. It is fun and to the point. The audiobook contains 10 percent of theory and 90 percent of practice. It is a perfect training manual for both personal study and classroom situations. This second edition of the book is a complete guide to American pronunciation. With this audiobook, you will learn and practice: How to form correct American/English sounds General rules of American/English intonation and sentence stress How to sound fluent and natural in American/English Articulation exercises to make your consonants clear and crisp This audiobook is suitable for people whose native language is American English as well as for those whose native language is not English. It will be of help for: Pronunciation and speech teachers Actors who need to develop a general American accent Professionals for whom a high standard of English and clarity of speech are important Public speakers Students International businessmen and executives Diplomats Call center employees Skilled professionals: teachers, professors, doctors, lawyers, journalists, etc, who wish to advance in their profession in the United States, Canada, and other countries where English is an official or business language (e.g. India) People who work in service and hospitality industries and need to communicate with good English Public speakers You will master the general American accent with words, sentences, funny verses, and prose passages. Existence of an accent can be explained by the fact that some English sounds do not exist in your native language or your regional accent/dialect, and your speech organs are not trained for them. Therefore, these sounds may represent a particular difficulty in pronunciation. In this audiobook, we list speakers of world languages and their particular difficulties and practical recommendations. We recommend that you start with the sounds that are the most difficult first. Five things this audiobook will help you with: Neutralizing your accent within two to three months Making your English clear and easy to understand Becoming a competent communicator and public speak Increasing your personal confidence Improving your job prospect and social life Practice with this audiobook and watch your career, education, and social life blossom!
©2014 Olga Smith BATCS Global (P)2019 Olga Smith BATCS Global
Get Rid of Your Accent
Summary
Get Rid of Your Accent is a speech training manual for mastering British-English pronunciation. The audiobook is based on a tried and trusted method, used in London drama schools, that helps British people with provincial accents learn standard British English. This audiobook helps with clarity of speech. If you are not sure how to pronounce particular English sounds, it will lead to unintelligible speech. We deal with all RP (received pronunciation) English sounds in this speech training manual, which will help you sound educated. It includes humorous sentences, tongue twisters, period verses, and rhyme exercises. Relevant subjects are received pronunciation, elocution, and phonetics. It is recorded by professional actors, and the quality of speech is outstanding.
©2006 Olga Smith BATCS (P)2014 Olga Smith BATCS
Pace, Pitch, Pause, Power: Public Speaking Skills Training Manual
Summary
This audiobook will help you learn how to modulate your voice, use pauses for a dramatic effect, and make your speech sound powerful. This is a practical training manual for public-speaking skills. This audiobook is based on a tried-and-trusted method used in London drama schools for decades.
©2018 Olga Smith (P)2018 Olga Smith
Get Rid of Your Accent for Beginners
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This book is ideal for beginner learners of English. It is also recommended for more advanced speakers of English as it contains the most essential everyday vocabulary. It is based on tried and tested methods used in London drama schools for decades. The book has useful phrases, humorous poems, and short prose passages to help you practice your English accent. This new book includes all the techniques that you need for accent reduction: Learn and practice English sounds and essential vocabulary to master a British accent Practice English intonation and sentence stress Learn and use connected speech patterns Practice difficult consonant clusters and word endings Learn about silent letters in English spellings Visit our website for information about our full line of accent apps and books and to book your individual speech analysis.
©2018 Olga Smith BATCS GLOBAL (P)2018 Oriana Smith
Get Rid of Your Accent for Business
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All of our Audible audiobooks for accent reduction are very popular because the Audible format is very well-suited for learning speech and pronunciation. This is the only audiobook on the market that has both pronunciation training and business vocabulary training. You can also get this title in print on Amazon and in bookstores, and as an e-book on Kindle. Use this audiobook with the companion iPhone app, Business English Speech, in the Apple App Store. Learn more at our website, www.batcsglobal.com. In this speech training manual, we teach you how to produce all British English sounds. Each chapter in the book covers one sound. First, we explain how to place your tongue, lips, and jaw for the target sound. Then you repeat the sound in words, phrases, sentences, proverbs, famous quotations, verses, and tongue twisters. In addition, you drill contraction exercises, words with silent letters, and French expressions used in business in the English-speaking world. This is the most complete and comprehensive resource for business speech training. It's written in the style of the Financial Times and The Economist. It contains interviews with top professionals from finance, IT, HR, marketing, and law to help you practice up-to-date business lingo. This book is a shortcut to achieving a high level of business English. Our customers tell us that it immediately helped them to improve their performance at work. It is a must-have for all professionals who would like to succeed in this competitive world.
©2012 Olga Smith BATCS (P)2014 Olga Smith BATCS
Get Rid of Your Accent: Advanced Level Pt. 2: The English Speech Training Manual (Part 2) by James, Linda, Smith, Olga (2011)
Summary
In the first part of this speech training manual, we provide practical exercises for difficult speech patterns, such as word endings, consonant clusters, schwa, and strong and weak forms of words. The second part is devoted to connected speech patterns. The third part deals with natural flow of speech, intonation, sentence stress, and onomatopoeia. The fourth part covers how to make your speech interesting to listen to using power, pitch, pace, and pause. At the end of the book, we provide useful vowel and consonant comparisons and difficult to pronounce London stations and place names. The book contains words, word pairs, colloquial expressions, and idioms, sentences, dialogues, prose passages, and poetry.
©2011 Olga Smith BATCS (P)2014 Olga Smith BATCS