VOICE TRAINING & ACCENT REDUCTION - HOW TO MODIFY ANY ACCENT IN 3 SIMPLE STEPS

Accent Reduction is the latest book by internationally acclaimed voice coach Joanna Gray.
In this easy to follow comprehensive guide to voice training, Joanna explains how to modify any accent in three quick and easy steps and why elocution known now as voice training is simplicity itself.
Contents include
TABLE OF CONTENTS

Page

• Joanna Gray – about the author 2-3
• The Pygmalion Effect 4
• The Rip Approach to perfect Spoken English 5
• THE RIP APPROACH – Repetition, Immersion & Practice 5-6
• Principle 1- Repetition 7
• The Truth v The Myth 8
• Repetition Exercises – 8
• Northern & Nasal Accents 9-10
• Southern Accents & lazy speech 11
• Gaelic Accents – Scottish, Irish,& Welsh 12
• Staccato effect – Raising and Lowering Pitch 13
• The Power of habit in speech 14-19
• Principle 2 – Immersion 19-20
• Principle 3 – Practice 21-22
• Non-English Accent Reduction 23
• Eastern, Asian, Chinese, Japanese Accents 23-25
• Eastern European 27-28
• Spanish, Mexican, Peruvian South American 28-31
• Exercise for difficulty with S and TH 30
• Pitch & Pace technique 31
• Exercise for difficulty with V & F 32-33
• Exercise for difficulty with F & TH 33
• Exercise for difficulty with O & OO 33-34
• Afterword, References & Further Reading 35-36

Joanna has helped many overcome speech difficulties and impediments and reduced well-established lifelong accents. She has written numerous publications on Voice Training and has trained people from all walks of life and professions in the art of good diction. This manual focuses on three main principles in accent reduction and gives clear simple instructions on how to reduce pronounced accents with the minimum amount of effort. Fast effective results are gained through simple application. A three step approach - Joanna has termed RIP.

Joanna's methods are simple, fast and effective whether you have a foreign or regional accent. She is fast becoming the most sought after speaker on the subject of accent reduction and elocution and her unique methods are used by corporate and individuals in all spheres. She has worked with celebrities, actors, doctors, consultants, politicians. As well as business managers, presenters and those working in the public sector. She advises companies on how to communicate more effectively using her unique mix of NLP and Elocution and has helped turn businesses around when staff productivity is held back by accent.

The art of voice training is to take accent as a whole, not as a word by word exercise and then immerse yourself. This book shows you how and is deliberately simple to be accessible to all.