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Acting With An Accent   On Sale, 20% Off!

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Dialects & Accents for Actors, Storytellers, etc.

NOT JUST IMITATION, but SYSTEMATIC LESSONS for each accent's
Intonation - Speech Rhythm - Muscularity/Resonance - Pronunciation

Used in over one thousand college theatre programs and by professional actors around the world! One-hour CDs with manuals teaching you Lilt, Stress, Resonance, and Pronunciation.

Select from 25 different patterns.

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Price: $19.16

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Acting With An Accent - All 25 Patterns   On Sale, 20% Off!

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Dialects & Accents for Actors, Storytellers, etc.

NOT JUST IMITATION, but SYSTEMATIC LESSONS for each accent's
Intonation - Speech Rhythm - Muscularity/Resonance - Pronunciation

Used in over one thousand college theatre programs and by professional actors around the world! 25 one-hour CDs with manuals teaching you Lilt, Stress, Resonance, and Pronunciation.

25 different patterns:

  • New York City
  • American Southern
  • Texas
  • Boston
  • "Down East" New England
  • "Kennedyesque"
  • Chicago
  • Mid-West Farm
  • Standard British
  • British North Country
  • Cockney
  • Irish
  • Scottish
  • Australian
  • Spanish
  • Italian
  • French
  • German
  • Russian
  • Yiddish
  • Polish
  • Norwegian/Swedish
  • Arabic
  • Farsi (Persian)
  • West Indian/Black African

Price: $396.00

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American Accent for Canadian Actors   On Sale, 20% Off!

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Second Edition (CD), Newly Revised, Expanded & Recorded

Special Version of Acting with an Accent

80-minute CD and manual

For Canadian Anglophones playing or auditioning for American roles; teaches American speech inflections, vocal resonance, and pronunciation changes.

Price: $19.16

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American Accents for English Actors CD   On Sale, 20% Off!

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Now on CD!

Special Versions of Acting with an Accent

Three almost 80-minute CDs and manual

Teaches several American patterns to British and other Commonwealth speakers:

  • Standard American
  • Southern & Texas
  • New York City

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Breaking the Accent Barrier   On Sale, 20% Off!

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60-minute DVD with printed exercise sheet

This valuable and entertaining video supplement to The Sound & Style of American English adds visual learning to the process of accent change.

  • Sentence diagrams with moving syllables assist students in mastering the JUMP UP & STEP DOWN intonation technique.
  • Video images inside the mouth demonstrate the exact physical characteristics of the MID-TONGUE MUSCULARITY technique (required for American speech resonance).

A wonderful additional resource for self-instruction or for classroom demonstrations.

Price: $26.36

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Dialect Monologues   On Sale, 20% Off!

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by Roger Karshner & David Alan Stern
CD with Book

Dr. Stern performs monologues by acclaimed playwright Roger Karshner, demonstrating these thirteen popular speech patterns:

  • Texas
  • Irish
  • Standard British
  • French
  • New York City
  • Boston
  • Mountain Southern
  • Chicago
  • German
  • Yiddish
  • Spanish
  • Cockney
  • Italian

The book contains monologue transcripts, instructional notes, and a special essay on avoiding the dangers of monotone accent patterns.

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Speaking Without An Accent   On Sale, 20% Off!

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NEW and ENHANCED Editions

All 8 Titles now Available on CD!

CDs with manuals teaching non-regional muscularity, resonance, and pronunciation to speakers with the following regionalisms:

Newly Recorded, Revised, and Expanded:
(2nd Editions, 2007/2009)

  • African-American
  • New York City and Surrounding Areas
  • American South and Texas

Remastered and Enhanced for CDs:

  • Chicago, Detroit, & Great Lakes Regions
  • Boston & Eastern New England Regions
  • Pennsylvania, South Jersey, and Delmarva
  • Mid-West Farm Belt
  • And a special articulation tape:
    ELEVATED/CLASSICAL AMERICAN DICTION
    Can be used as a follow-up to any of the first seven tapes, or to improve the diction of those without distinctive regionalisms.

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Techniques for Teaching Accent Reduction   On Sale, 20% Off!

A Package of Printed Teacher-Support Materials including Complete Syllabi for Courses and Units

The Sound & Style of American English has proven to be very effective as a "textbook" for classroom use. This package has been published to assist you in setting up and administering your classes using The Sound & Style of American English.

Price: $8.76

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The Dialect Handbook, 2nd Edition   On Sale, 20% Off!

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Learning, Researching, and Performing a Dialect Role
by Ginny Kopf

From Voiceprint Publishing

Contents:

  • An Introduction to Learning Dialects
  • Audition Preparation for a Dialect Play
  • Script Analysis for a Dialect Play
  • Pre-Rehearsal Research
  • Adapting the Dialect for the Stage
  • The rehearsal process: Polishing the Dialect
  • Run-Throughs, Dress Rehearsals, Opening Night and Beyond
  • To the Dialect Coach (and the Director)
  • Dialect Actor's Checklist
  • Bibliography of Dialect Tapes and Texts
  • The Dialect Directory (listing hundreds of feature films, TV series, audiotapes, books and dialect instructional tapes for studying more than thirty different dialects)

"I had planned sometime in the future to write a book dealing with the actor's complete preparation for and execution of a dialect role as well as professional issues confronted by production dialect coaches. Having read Ginny Kopf's handbook, I am crossing that project off of my 'to do' list. Ginny has already done it better than I would have."
David Alan Stern

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The Sound & Style of American English, 3rd Edition   On Sale, 20% Off!

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A Self-Instructional Course Teaching the Standard American Accent to Speakers of All Other First Languages

NOW ON CD!
Newly Revised, Expanded & Recorded

Six 80-minute CDs with a 44-page drill book

LISTEN to Dr. Stern answer your questions about
SOUND & STYLE

NOT JUST BORING PRONUNCIATION DRILLS!
This straightforward and fun technique teaches you:

  • AMERICAN INTONATION
    Featuring the widely acclaimed Jump Up & Step Down system for Americanizing pitch and speech rhythm.
  • MUSCULARITY AND VOICE PLACEMENT
    Featuring the Mid-Tongue Muscularity technique for creating American resonance and paving the way for the production of American-sounding phonemes.
  • ADVANCED PRONUNCIATION
    Featuring: Final Consonants & Clusters, L/R and S/Z Differentiation, Medial T and -ED endings, & Colloquial Speech Styles.

Price: $31.96

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The Speaker's Voice   On Sale, 20% Off!

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SECOND EDITION

NOW ON CD!
Newly Revised, Expanded & Recorded

A Self-Instructional Course in Aesthetic Voice Improvement

Three 80-minute CDs with companion text/drill manual

This program will help you achieve a stronger, more pleasant, more expressive speaking voice, free of vocal fatigue, pain, or potential injury.

You will learn techniques to:

Relax your Vocal Mechanism
Breathe Properly for Speech
Create Voice Without Tension (including Tension-Free Intonation and Vocal Projection)
Avoid Boring, Monotone Speech
Develop Full-Cavity Resonance & Articulation Energy


Speech Pathologists/Voice Instructors:
The Speaker's Voice is ideal for private clients or as a resource or "textbook" for voice and diction courses. Quantity discounts are available.

Price: $26.36

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