Speak with Distinction

By Edith Skinner,

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Widely recognized as the most complete and rigorous text of its kind since it was first published in 1942 ESpeak With DistinctionE is an invaluable resource. It presents a comprehensive study of the sounds of Spoken English in their most important phonetic environments. This most recent revision also adds much…


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In addition to being the best voice-training manual, this book is a fund of delightful, at times even hilarious, sentences and phrases that get you to think about the English language purely as sound. A poet fascinated by our consonants and vowels, I do the recommended exercises not to train my voice but just for the fun of them.

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