American Accent Training with Online Audio

It has very good explanation for a lot of foregein speakers. I give 4 stars because a lot of pages in the book are for other languages, it would be great if you can purchase only for Spanish speakers or so.

Es mi segunda compra en Amazon y pues todo excelente. Por ahora no comienzo a leer el libro. Pero el servicio de Amazon es excelente. Saludos.

It's not doable to download audio. You have to register to Barron's online app and use it to get access to your files.No offline access.

Material que foi um divisor de águas no meu estudo de inglês...Me senti muito mais confiante na minha última viagem aos EUA e comprovei que todo conteúdo exposto nesse livro é real (pelo menos em NYC).Você percebe alguns detalhes de pronúncia e se pergunta: como eu nunca percebi isso???As sutilezas fazem toda a diferença na sua fala e hoje recebo muitos elogios na minha pronúncia!

Just got the book, some people said it was not easy to download, I found it very easy. Read the introduction of the book, sounds very interesting.

I am not a native English speaker. I have been speaking English for about 15 years though and living in the US for 7 years. I definitely don't have a thick confusing accent and Americans keep telling me that "your English is so good and you don't have a difficult accent at all." However, I don't speak with an American accent :(It has mentally put me under pressure (partly because I tend to be perfectionist) to the point that sometimes I don't speak among others just because I don't want to be that token person. So, I decided to buy this book and try to change my accent (although I am one of those people thinking that your accent forms in your childhood.)Having gone through a few pages of this book and listening to the audio files, I have gained great info so far and am motivated to change my accent (even if it's just getting closer a bit to the standard accent.)I will update my review as time passes and I keep working through the book.BTW, this book's material and design is excellent especially the American flag design.Every time I pick up this book I feel so patriotic. I know I wasn't born here but the US is my adopted country and I would die for it. US of A :)Update-1, 11/4/2017: Something has been really bothering me about the way phonetics has been done in this book. Why not IPA? We spend so much time learning IPA in order to use a dictionary and then all of a sudden in this book you see a new convention (that I haven't seen anywhere else.) I am making my conversion table to IPA for this book and really wish that in the future editions the author would use IPA.