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by Adil Rehman (Author)
This is the sequel to Coursebook One, "The American Accent Learnway - Cross the Bridge, Over the Divide". It is the second of a three Coursebook series. It is followed by Coursebook Three, "The American Accent Learnway - As One, On the Summit".
Together, with the preceding Vocal Pattern Bridge Table in Coursebook One and the Vocal Pattern Summit Table that follows in Coursebook Three, the Inland Table in this Coursebook will provide you with the means to diagnose your own Accent by identifying the Vocal Patterns you vocalize differently than Americans. In so doing, you will create a personal Development Plan, targeting these for relearning, the American way.
Also, with the Bridge and Summit Vocal Pattern Tables, the Inland Table will serve as an integrated, comprehensive "Look-Up" of Distinctive Vocal Patterns for your anytime reference and continued learning, enabling you to retrain your Accent.
The Inland Table covers 200 very Distinctive Vocal Patterns, said in the American Accent - compared with the British. They are "Substantially" Distinctive and thus make a big impact on Accent. In terms of level of Distinctiveness, these Vocal Patterns fall between the most Distinctive covered in the Bridge Table and the clearly Distinctive covered in the Summit Table.
While Coursebook One, takes you most of the way, this Coursebook Two builds on your earlier progress to take you almost all the way. Coursebook Three will then address closure of yet remaining significant gaps.
