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A very important thing you need to remember is that you can use your accent to say what you mean
and how you mean it. Word stress conveys meaning through tone or feeling, which can be much
more important than the actual words that you use. We'll cover the expression of these feelings
through intonation in the first lesson.

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You may have noticed that I talk fast and often run my words together. You've probably heard
enough "English-teacher English"—where ... everything ... is ... pronounced without having to listen
too carefully. That's why on the CDs we're going to talk just like the native speakers that we are, in a
normal conversational tone.

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Native speakers may often tell people who are learning English to "slow down" and to "speak
clearly." This is meant with the best of intentions, but it is exactly the opposite of what a student
really needs to do.

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If you speak fairly quickly and with strong intonation, you will be understood
more easily. To illustrate this point, you will hear a Vietnamese student first trying to speak slowly
and carefully and then repeating the same words quickly and with strong intonation.

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Studying, this
exercise took her only about two minutes to practice, but the difference makes her sound as if she
had been in America for many years.

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Many people equate accent with pronunciation. I don't feel this to be true at all. America is a big
country, and while the pronunciation varies from the East Coast to the West Coast, from the southern
to the northern states, two components that are uniquely American stay basically the same—the
speech music, or intonation, and the word connections or liaisons

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Throughout this program, we will
focus on them. In the latter part of the book we will work on pronunciation concepts, such as Cat?
Caught? Cut? and Betty Bought a Bit of Better Butter; we also will work our way through some of
the difficult sounds, such as TH, the American R, the L, V, and Z.

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American Accent Training was created to help people "sound American" for lectures, interviews,
teaching, business situations, and general daily communication.

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Although America has many
regional pronunciation differences, the accent you will learn is that of standard American English as
spoken and understood by the majority of educated native speakers in the United States.

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Don't worry
that you will sound slangy or too casual because you most definitely won't.

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This is the way a
professor lectures to a class, the way a national newscaster broadcasts, the way that is most
comfortable and familiar to the majority of native speakers.

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Learners can be seriously hampered by a negative outlook, so I'll address this very important point
early. First, your accent is not bad;

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it is nonstandard to the American ear. There is a joke that goes:
What do you call a person who can speak three languages? Trilingual.

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What do you call a person
who can speak two languages? Bilingual. What do you call a person who can only speak one
language? American.

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who can speak two languages? Bilingual. What do you call a person who can only speak one
language? American.