Fluent English Speech app is available on AppStore and GooglePlay. It works best with an accompanying video course. The app contains 17 lessons from the book Get Rid of your Accent Part Two, Advanced Level, by Linda James and Olga Smith.
This app will help you to:
• Learn English idioms and colloquial expressions
• Master articulation, difficult consonant clusters and word endings
• Learn the main patterns of English intonation
• Learn about English sentence stress
• Speak fluently in English, in phrases and linking words together
We have two accompanying apps for this book: Fluent English Speech and 4Ps, Power, Pitch, Pace, Pause and an accompanying video course. This book helps:
1. To speak fluently
2. To learn what to stress in a phrase
3. To learn how to not sound monotonous
4. To learn consonant clusters and word endings.
5. To learn 100 idioms and colloquialisms
Reviews:
"An excellent, highly recommended book for everyone who wants to improve their accent.
Purchased “Get rid of your accent” part one, two and three. Each book has a different set of well structured lessons which make the learning experience positive and highly effective."
"I bought this book on a whim, just like almost every book I purchase, so in a way I had no actual references of what it had in store.I must confess to being a bit disappointed after a first quick look, to me it seemed too short, a pamphlet compared to the other book on pronunciation I already had (the fêted Cambridge advanced pronunciation in use). I thought there was nothing this one could actually offer, being overshadowed by the more professional-looking and sizable larger Cambridge's book.
Don't get me wrong, I wasn't taken in by the title. Marketing executives will brand a product as tantalisingly as possible to rack up a few sales but I was fully aware this book is a pronunciation course and not a magic nostrum. I'm deeply sorry to tell you there's no substitute for hard work.
Whereas the book covers contents that Cambridge's pronunciation in use series have taught me, this book's approach won me over quite soon. Unlike the first, it's not so weighty and thorough and instead this one goes straight to the point.
As an add-on, it often draws on funny -and hellishly hard- tongue-twisters to challenge even the most advanced students, and sentences include a wide range of English idioms and colloquialisms that you may as well learn along the way. That's what I call added value, and all in a small booklet! Some other readers have noted how well it feels to have the chance to listen to the name of English cities and emblematic places pronounced, too. I didn't mind about this too much, but I suppose it's another of its fortes.
Once again, I don't intend to disparage other authors or works -I love Cambridge's pronunciation in use-, but I personally favour a more minimalist and practical approach, and Get Rid of your Accent does the trick for me.
If you know what you're buying, and if you're willing to work your socks off to improve your pronunciation, fetch it already!"
About the authors
Linda James (RAM, Dip. Ed., IPD, LRAM)Linda trained at the Royal Academy of Music and qualified as a teacher of Speech and Drama. She also holds an International Phonetics Diploma from London University. Linda has had extensive experience as a dialect coach in TV, films and the theatre. For more than 20 years she has worked as a Speech Tutor at several London drama colleges and privately, specialising in the teaching of Received Pronunciation (RP) and the eradication of accents.
Olga Smith (BA in Linguistics, MBA)Olga holds a degree in Linguistics and an MBA from Nottingham University. She is also an advanced public speaker and a holder of the Toastmaster bronze reward. Olga learned a unique drama school method for Accent Reduction from top British phonetician Linda James. They together co-authored the UK bestselling books, “Get Rid of your Accent”, Part One, Part Two and Part Three.