American Accent Training vs Artic Practice

“American Accent Training™” Pick up a standard American accent in just a few hours! This is an excellent resource for all ESL students. Actors can easily get a standard accent for auditions and roles. OTHER AAT APPS: American Accent and The Story of Max (both available in Chinese and Japanese) Sing-Along Song Bird, Complete Verb Tenses, Mr. Thingamajig, Jokes with Explanations and Audio (available in Japanese), as well as The Four Gospels with popular verses spoken aloud. Learn pronunciation, word connections and the American speech music in a simple step-by-step process. You can use your iPhone headphones to listen, record on the digital recorder, and compare yourself with the model audio. (The app works great on the iPod, but the recorder does not appear. Sorry!) It’s fun! It’s easy! It’s fast! Designed by Ann Cook, author of the best-selling American Accent Training, AAT is an amazingly easy way to learn the American accent. It’s perfect for beginning, intermediate and advanced students. This is the least expensive way available! You start with the most basic intonation patterns and go through to the most advanced levels in English. Your comprehension will increase dramatically. This is excellent practice for TOEFL and TSE. ESL instructors will find this to be a great way to pick up the basics of teaching the American accent. Perfect for a daily commute or a long trip! Feature Summary: •Intonation •Word Connections •Pronunciation of all the consonants •The American R and L, Th, S and Z, etc. •Pronunciation of all the vowels •Cat / Caught / Cut, Bit or Beat? etc. •Can and Can’t •Audio for each exercise •Digital recorder Coming soon: American English: Grammar & Accent, British vs. American English, Punctuation & Spelling, Rules of Syllable Stress, Pronunciation Flashcards, Plants / Vegetables / Flowers, and Planes / Trains / Automobiles. We'd love to hear what you'd like to see created! Let us know!

More Speech Therapy for school and home practice! This app has 536 colorful drawings to hold children’s interest as they practice their good speech. Focus on Initial, Medial, and Consonant phonemes along with Consonant Clusters and some Vowels + R. Each picture has a button with the word, the sounds in the word, a phrase and sentence containing the word. And a question and answer to stimulate discussion using the picture as a starting point. A clear speech model is presented for the child to imitate and they can record and play back their own speech. The clinician can choose from three scoring methods. 1. Score each response as correct, distorted or incorrect. 2. Score responses as correct, distorted, substituted, or omitted. 3. Score productions based on whether they are spontaneously correct/incorrect or imitatively correct/incorrect. This app uses the content from the Word Practice game from LocuTour’s Artic Games & More CD.