Description

This unique book offers a complete course in how to do any accent and also gives you the tools to navigate your way through a specific accent. Using solid technical know-how, clear practical steps, real-life examples, and the occasional dose of humour, the Haydn/Sharpe System brings to the surface the underlying structure of accents. The authors share the processes that they, as specialist dialect coaches, have developed, to give you the insight, tools and confidence to work with accents.

This second edition includes examples and exercises for six new accents.

Includes a free online code to access detailed exercises and sample sentences – giving you the sounds you need to get your accent skills going! Also includes ready-to-use resource recordings of the following accents:

Norfolk (NEW), Yorkshire (NEW), Standard Canadian (NEW), Standard Australian (NEW), Standard American, Northern Irish (Belfast), Southern Irish (Cork), Scottish (Glasgow), Newcastle, Manchester, Liverpool, South Wales (Swansea), West Midlands (Walsall), Cockney, Neutral Standard English, Contemporary 'Street' London (NEW), Cornish.

Table of Contents

1. Acknowledgements and Thanks
2. Introduction
3. Get Started
4. The Foundations
5. The Two Planets
6. The Bite
7. The Shapes
8. The Groove
9. Get Professional
10. Useful Stuff
11. Appendix

Product details

Explore Methuen Drama
Published 01 Sep 2014
Format Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition 2nd
Extent 224
ISBN 9781783194629
Imprint Methuen Drama
Series The Actor's Toolkit
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Author

Edda Sharpe

Edda Sharpe is a voice and dialect coach working…

Author

Jan Haydn Rowles

Jan Haydn Rowles has worked as an accent and dial…

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