Accent Reduction: Using Consonants to Sound American

Are your nerves rankled by American English? Does your face grow splotchy in patches when you stumble through your ‘trouble words’? When facing a speaking engagement, do you drag your feet, imagining a minefield of lava pits?

Speech instructor Ivan Borodin has taught accent reduction for two decades, researching the most efficient methods. This manual presents a proven technique that is based on the premise that a convincing American accent begins with the production of the consonants.

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