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Acting With An Accent On Sale, 20% Off!

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.
Which Course Should I Buy?
Price: $19.16
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Acting With An Accent - All 25 Patterns On Sale, 20% Off!

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
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- Standard British
- British North Country
- Cockney
- Irish
- Scottish
- Australian
- Spanish
- Italian
- French
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- German
- Russian
- Yiddish
- Polish
- Norwegian/Swedish
- Arabic
- Farsi (Persian)
- West Indian/Black African
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Price: $396.00
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American Accent for Canadian Actors On Sale, 20% Off!

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!

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!

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).
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A wonderful additional resource for self-instruction or for classroom demonstrations.
Price: $26.36
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Dialect Monologues On Sale, 20% Off!

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
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- Chicago
- German
- Yiddish
- Spanish
- Cockney
- Italian
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The book contains monologue transcripts, instructional notes, and a special
essay on avoiding the dangers of monotone accent patterns.
Price: $19.96
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Speaking Without An Accent On Sale, 20% Off!

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!

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)
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"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
Price: $15.96
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The Sound & Style of American English, 3rd Edition On Sale, 20% Off!

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
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.
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Price: $31.96
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The Speaker's Voice On Sale, 20% Off!

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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