New Accent Reduction Series - Accents with Amy.. and Alex!

Hi guys!

I'm back with some resources that I hope you like. As you may know already, Amy Walker is an American actress, singer, writer and teacher of accents with and incredible gift. She has recently launched a new Accent Reduction Series to ESL Speakers. This series is completely in-depth and it is composed by several videos, some of them are for free and you can find them in her channel in YouTube, and some of them are for rental and purchase, and are available on 21accents.com and vimeo.com/amiablewalker.

This series works the different vowel sounds, the consonants, the rhythm and the melody. It is very useful if you're an actor, or if you just want to get a nice and clear american accent.

So here they are, directly from her website 21accents.com, Accent with Amy - American Accent Tutorials:

Fun, In-depth Tutorial for the Standard American Accent – Accents with Amy 

Accents w Amy! Learn in real time. Hear first-hand how quickly you too can sound like a standard (neutral) American with Amy’s fun, unique techniques. Speak and learn along with us!

Diphthongs “A” “I” “U” 

Part 5:

diphthong eɪ (say, day, thanks, favorite, play)
diphthong aɪ (rice, wild, child, time)
diphthong uː (you, few, view, human, usual)

Schwa and long ä | Basis of American Vowel sounds

Part 4:

Vowel “ə” (the, love, was, today, money, word, for, for you, forever)
Vowel “ˈɔ” (always, all, party, darling, awesome)

American “T” and “S” | Accents with Amy

Part 6:

“T” (time, tint, trick, after, afternoon, tape, hat, mat, between, best, left)
“S” (sip, sand, same, sale, serious, stretch, smart, smile, pass, mass, pace, juice)

American “oh” “oo” “ow” ( oʊ uː ʊ æʊ) | Accents with Amy

Part 3:

diphthong oʊ (oh, no, grow, phone, home, road)
long uː (room, bloom, move, blue, you)
short ʊ (good, book, cook, would, wooden, look)
diphthong æʊ (how, now, out, about, house, powder, shout)

“ee” and “i” ( iː v. ɪ) – American Accent Tutorial | Amy Walker

Part 2:

Long iː (me, need, reason, tea, people)
versus: short ɪ (pick, lift, win, dinner, mint)

“a” and “eh” (æ and e) – fun, essential tips! – American Accent Tutorial | Amy Walker

Part 1:

Short æ (back, have, cat, can, man)
versus: e (bend, men, head, every, left)

The goal is that by listening to any difference between the correct way and another way, you will develop your ability to hear any differences in your own speaking -thereby learning faster and more completely.

Hope you enjoy the videos!

See you!