Accent Reduction for Chinese Speakers

Textbook and Audio

After more than 15 years working with Chinese professionals in the pharmaceutical, biotech, chemical, information technology and other industries, Lauren Supraner summarizes in this book the key pronunciation errors for Chinese speakers, along with the tools to help correct them. This self-study guide tackles the most common accent problems for Chinese speakers of English.

Master:

Problem consonants and vowels
Word stress, sentence stress, and rhythm
Linking, which runs words together for fluency
Common intonation patterns

This book includes:

Over 170 activities targeting the most common accent errors for Chinese speakers
4 hours of recordings to sharpen your listening and mimicking skills
Explanations for more than 20 common mistakes due to first language
Photographs and figures to help you master tongue, lip and jaw placement

Hours of Audio Recording

Sharpen your listening and mimicking skills with over 4 hours of audio recordings. Just go to the website listed in the Appendix of the book, and register with the invite code provided in the Appendix to access the recordings.

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Excellent resource for ESL and pronunciation teachers!

Amazon Reviews

Accessible and manageable book for Chinese learners of English

“As an ESL teacher who also teaches accent reduction, I found this book to be very accessible and on-point. Its length and level of detail were manageable for my busy Chinese student who was working more than full-time beyond our language classes… And the audio recordings that accompany the book are also crucial to students’ success. I recommend this book to Chinese ESL students and their teachers who need to focus on “accent reduction,” but do not have many months to undertake highly specialized (costly, time-consuming) study.”

A serious and useful book for teachers & students

“My Chinese students give this a thumbs-up. IMO, it’s technical, detailed, professional linguistic help for teachers and students using it for self-study.”

“Comprehensive & useful resource for Chinese speakers. Among other topics, it covers predicting sentence stress with an easy-to-understand approach (compared to other books).”

“This is helping my Chinese wife speak English even better.”