The American Accent Learnway As One, On the Summit

by Adil Rehman

Overview

This is the third Coursebook of the American Accent Learnway series. It follows Coursebook One, "The
American Accent Learnway – Cross the Bridge, Over the Divide" and Coursebook Two, "The American
Accent Learnway – Together, On the Road Inland".

Together, with the Vocal Pattern Bridge Table in Coursebook One and the Vocal Pattern Inland Table in
Coursebook Two, the Summit Table in this Coursebook will provide you with the means to diagnose your
own Accent by identifying the Vocal Patterns you vocalize differently than Americans. In so doing, you will
create a personal Development Plan, targeting these for relearning, the American way.

Also, with the Bridge and Inland Vocal Pattern Tables, the Summit Table will serve as an integrated,
comprehensive "Look-Up" of Distinctive Vocal Patterns for your anytime reference and continued learning,
enabling you to retrain your Accent.

The Summit Table covers 300 clearly Distinctive Vocal Patterns, said in the American Accent – compared
with the British. They are "Significantly" Distinctive and therefore make a noticeable impact on Accent. In
terms of level of Distinctiveness, these Vocal Patterns are more subtle than the most Distinctive covered
in the Bridge Table and the very Distinctive covered in the Inland Table. Because of this, these Vocal Patterns
are more likely to have escaped your attention. The Summit Table now enables you to identify these and
make the changes you need.

While Coursebook One, takes you most of the way and Coursebook Two builds on this progress to take
you almost all the way, Coursebook Three then addresses the final gaps that might otherwise persist.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798985085532
Publisher:	Adil Rehman
Publication date:	09/30/2022
Edition description:	The First ed.
Pages:	76
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 11.00(h) x 0.16(d)

About the Author

I grew up in India where I went through most of my education. Though my parents came from different
language backgrounds, the language spoken at home was English. My mother learned English at a Convent
School in Bombay from Irish teachers. My father qualified at Cambridge University in the United Kingdom,
becoming, in his career, the Legal Director for a multi-national organization, and later, the Principal of a Law
College. Other influences included schooling at British schools for expatriates in India and subsequent
schooling in the Indian Public School system.

My mind was opened to the subject of Linguistics while at college. After a Bachelor's degree in English &
Psychology, and then, a Master's degree in Sociology, both from Bombay University, I went on to have a
career in Human Resource Management & Consulting with well known companies in India, the Middle East
and the United States.

I continued my education, along with my profession. In India, my learning from a two year foundation course
for a doctoral level program in Human Resource Development contributed greatly to the scientific approach
underlying the development of the American Accent Learnway. After moving to the United States in 2003,
I earned a Master of Science Degree in Human Resource Management from Golden Gate University, in
San Francisco.

Over the course of my life, exposure to the diverse Accents of English across the world, the phonetics of
other languages, and subsequently, to the English spoken in America, also provided relevant background
for this work.

I see that the present work called upon all that I have learned as a student in the areas of Human sciences
and Language, and as a Human Resource Development professional. It required learning about what is
knowledge, – and how to create it. The excitement of this pursuit was also important. From the beginning,
I saw the purpose as bold. It was actually a much bigger adventure than I anticipated, with many unknowns
to consider along the way. What has been most personally satisfying is that it all conforms with fact.

I believe it will be useful for many people. I am keen that everyone who is interested in speaking the
American way see what has been learned. For me, both the journey and what it revealed has been
fascinating.