How to improve your accent with audio books

by | Oct 26, 2009 | Uncategorized

Here is a great way to work on improving your American accent:Buy a book on audio. I suggest a non-fiction topic because the speech is generally better suited for this type of practice. Listen to a sentence or a phrase, then pause it and repeat what the speaker said....

S or Z?

by | Oct 5, 2009 | Uncategorized

Alex asks:Hello Lisa,You say in your book that the final “s” in the words “is” and “has” is pronounced as /z/. Then what if when “it is” and “it has” are contracted to “it’s”, does the...

Accent Reduction Practice with Singing

by | Oct 5, 2009 | Uncategorized

Paolo asks:Is singing songs a good way to improve my pronunciaton or not? I’m just asking because sometimes rappers or singers tend to pronounce words with a different “cadence” just to make them rhyme with one another, what do you think?Yes, singing...