Introduction
Why we wrote this book
Following the tremendous success of our first book, “Get Rid of your Accent”, we launched a series of accent reduction courses for diplomats and professionals. Many of our students had reasonably good pronunciation with a few problem sounds, and just needed to fine tune some of the details, such as:
- usage of neutral vowels,
- linkages,
- liaisons, and
- intonation, sentence stress and usage of pauses.
We decided to create a complement to our first book with all the things mentioned above, plus: