Mastering the American Accent with Online Audio (Barron's Foreign Language Guides) Second Edition

Mastering the American Accent es una herramienta increíblemente útil para quienes buscan mejorar su pronunciación en inglés. El enfoque detallado en la fonética, la entonación y el ritmo del habla americana hace que sea un recurso valioso tanto para estudiantes como para profesionales. La inclusión de audio en línea permite practicar de manera efectiva y comparar la pronunciación con hablantes nativos. Las explicaciones son claras y fáciles de seguir, lo que facilita el aprendizaje progresivo. Sin duda, un libro imprescindible para quienes desean hablar inglés con mayor fluidez y confianza.

This book is well-structured and easy to follow. The practical exercises effectively target intonation and stress in American pronunciation. The online audio materials are easily accessible and greatly enhance the learning experience.Despite some negative reviews about audio access, I had no issues at all. Overall, it’s an excellent resource for anyone looking to improve their American accent. Highly recommended!

I get so tired of bad reviews by people who don't bother to read the directions and, instead, complain that no CDs are included. No, they're not, because most computers don't come with CD players anymore. That's why the author has kindly put all 390 audio files ON THE WEBSITE FOR DOWNLOADING to your computer, phone, tablet, or other digital device AND has put the directions for downloading on the inside of the front cover of the book. This is a great book. The audio files are clear with correct Standard American English accents and use both male and female voices. I only wish there were also audio tracks for the very last section of the book that covers problem words for native speakers of various languages. The first part of the book provides practice in vowel and consonant pronunciation, first at a basic level, and then in more depth. I found only two small errors in this section, which is in contrast to some popular books that consistently provide incorrect pronunciation guidelines in this area. The section on "The Various t Sounds of American English" in the "Problematic Consonants" chapter is second-to-none. The chapters on syllable stress, including some coverage of prefixes and suffixes, and word stress, including reduction, are also quite good, as is the section on problems specific to native speakers of various languages. There is also a brief section on intonation. Overall, I find this book to be a very useful book for introducing the intricacies of the American accent.

It was a used book in good condition.

I saw several reviews saying the audio was not downloadable, yet I decided to buy it because:1. The cover says "includes downloadable audio of all the exercises"2. I saw a review that said people was not reading the instructions, and that you would be able to download the audio after following the steps described in the book3. There's a video of the author on the Amazon page of the book clarifying and assuring that audio was BOTH accessible online AND downloadableWell, I got the book yesterday, registered to Barron's page (the publisher) today and I don't see any way to download the online audio.I already sent an email to both Barron and Lisa's website to ask for instructions on how to download the audio.If I ever get an answer I'll remove this comment and change the rating; content seems to be very valuable, but with no downloadable audio and only 1-year of online access to the audio content, this book wouldn't be useful as a reference for years to come, so I'll be returning it and leave this comment if I don't get an answer after 1 week.

It was a wonderful shopping experience, miles away, and the books were in good condition

Once you purchase and have the book in your hands type in Google: "register book barron's", then open the website and follow the instructions, it will let you create an account that in turn gives you access to the online audio, however this has an expiration date, in my case Dec/30/2023 (1 year, 9 months), the audio is not available for download, but I will try to get it from the author through Facebook as other reviewers suggested, in the meantime I have what I need. I think a language is like a muscle, so you may lose your diction after some time, this is the kind of material that even after years you may keep checking, so I need the offline audio files and will try to get them.

The book is great. Lots of useful information along with audio. When I just bought it a half year ago, the link in the book was working, however, it stopped working at some point. I tried to google where I can find the audio file but was unsuccessful. I ended up finding author's facebook page where I found students' comments about the link which doesn't work and finally found an updated link provided by author. Make sure you register the book and then you'll get an access to audio files. Miscommunication between the author and selling platform (Amazon) cost her lots of bad reviews, however the book itself is jut amazing.