Linda James has narrated 4 audiobooks on Listento.it by 2 authors, with an average listener rating of 5★ across 2 ratings. The most-rated is Get Rid of Your Accent.
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
Summary
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: 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