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| renaissancemedi Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Greece Joined 4154 days ago 941 posts - 1309 votes  Speaks: Greek*, Ancient Greek*, EnglishC2 Studies: French, Russian, Turkish, Modern Hebrew | Message 1 of 9 13 January 2013 at 6:31pm | IP Logged |
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Is there a particular course on improving the pronunciation of English? British or american, I don't mind at all.
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| Medulin Tetraglot Senior Member Croatia Joined 4464 days ago 1199 posts - 2192 votes Speaks: Croatian*, English, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Norwegian, Hindi, Nepali | Message 2 of 9 15 January 2013 at 4:31pm | IP Logged |
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| garyb Triglot Senior Member ScotlandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5003 days ago 1468 posts - 2413 votes Speaks: English*, Italian, French Studies: Spanish | Message 3 of 9 15 January 2013 at 4:38pm | IP Logged |
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I've heard good things about "English Pronunciation In Use" - apparently it's very comprehensive and gives you plenty work to do. I think it's for British English.
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| Ogrim Heptaglot Senior Member France Joined 4435 days ago 991 posts - 1896 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Spanish, French, Romansh, German, Italian Studies: Russian, Catalan, Latin, Greek, Romanian | Message 4 of 9 15 January 2013 at 5:31pm | IP Logged |
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BBC has quite a nice language site, and there is a section dedicated to pronunciation. The link is here. It got videos, audio and explanations of the different sounds.
What you get is British RP, or "BBC English", which at least in many European countries is the standard they try to teach in school. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| renaissancemedi Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Greece Joined 4154 days ago 941 posts - 1309 votes Speaks: Greek*, Ancient Greek*, EnglishC2 Studies: French, Russian, Turkish, Modern Hebrew | Message 5 of 9 15 January 2013 at 6:01pm | IP Logged |
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Thank you all so much!
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 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6705 days ago 4250 posts - 5710 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 6 of 9 16 January 2013 at 12:11am | IP Logged |
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Then you have books like "Accents - a manual for actors" by Robert Blumenfeld (including 2 CDs). Use whatever online resources you can find, written works, audio, native speakers... Maybe you could try some chorusing à la Olle "Speech doctor" Kjellin.
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| renaissancemedi Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Greece Joined 4154 days ago 941 posts - 1309 votes Speaks: Greek*, Ancient Greek*, EnglishC2 Studies: French, Russian, Turkish, Modern Hebrew | Message 7 of 9 16 January 2013 at 8:53am | IP Logged |
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Interesting, I had never heared of Olle Kjellin before. Prosody is in fact a very big part of the greek language's history, but I am not a singing person. Although, during my feeble attempt to learn danish, I found myself saying phrases in rythm. It was the only way I could pronounce them!
I'll check every single thing you suggested. So far I've only really seen the BBC, and it was great. I miss the old days when hollywood films were full of actors with magnificent accents. Think of Casablanca, or Marlene Dietrich. I don't mind sounding like a foreigner, it's just that there is a line between exotic and annoying. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Spinchäeb Ape Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 4266 days ago 146 posts - 180 votes Speaks: English*, German | Message 8 of 9 18 January 2013 at 4:03am | IP Logged |
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Acting with an Accent by David Alan Stern. It's oriented for people who want to go into acting, but it should be helpful. He has instructional recordings to help you sound Standard British as well as other dialects in Britain such as North Country. There's also Scottish and Irish. The has a number of American courses as well, including standard American and regional accents like New York and southern.
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