How to Speak Southern
How to Speak Southern

Author: Steve Mitchell

Publisher: Bantam

Published: 2009-07-22

Total Pages: 66

ISBN-13: 0307567737

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This tongue-in-cheek dictionary of Southern words and phrases offers a hilarious spoof of the Southern accent. This book is dedicated to all Yankees* in the hope that it will teach them how to talk right. *Yankee: Anyone who is not from Kentucky, Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, Arkansas, Texas, and possibly Oklahoma and West-by-God-Virginia. A Yankee may become an honorary Southerner, but a Southerner cannot become a Yankee, assuming any Southerner wanted to.

Learn a Southern Drawl
Learn a Southern Drawl

Author: Ivan Borodin

Publisher: CreateSpace

Published: 2013-06-27

Total Pages: 34

ISBN-13: 9781490557250

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A Southern Drawl tempts the listener like the aroma of buttermilk biscuits. The drawl sings like bluegrass and glows like a firefly in a jar during an endless August night.Folks can be afraid of daring the accent, but learning it shouldn't be awkward. Like Momma used to tell us when she served grits before the first day of school, “You don't clean the house before the cleaning lady comes.” Meaning, if you're looking to sound like you were born in the Carolinas, you've found the right program.This manual is fully supported by a free series of YouTube videos. Spend a short while with it, and soon you'll be doing more than whistling Dixie. You'll be telling your kin, 'Y'all come back and see us, y'hear.'

Vietnamese for Beginners
Vietnamese for Beginners

Author: Jake Catlett

Publisher: Paiboon Pub.

Published: 2008-02

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9781887521864

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This is the second edition of the book Vietnemese for Beginners by Jake Catlett. It contains the book and three CDs. This edition is much improved from the first one. The Vietnamese language made easy! Vietnamese for Beginners is designed for either self-study or classroom use. It teaches all four language skills - speaking, listening (when used in conjunction with the audio), reading and writing; and offers clear, easy, step-by-step instruction building on what has been previously learned. Lots of exercises and useful phrases. Very user-friendly and fun to use. There is an audio version that follows the book. Three CDs are available separately.

How to Speak Midwestern
How to Speak Midwestern

Author: Ted McClelland

Publisher:

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780997774276

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Pittsburgh toilet, squeaky cheese, city chicken, shampoo banana, and Chevy in the Hole are all phrases that are familiar to Midwesterners but sound foreign to anyone living outside the region. This book explains not only what Midwesterners say but also how and why they say it and covers such topics as: the causes of the Northern cities vowel shift, why the accents in Fargo miss the nasality that's a hallmark of Minnesota speech, and why Chicagoans talk more like people from Buffalo than their next-door neighbors in Wisconsin. Readers from the Midwest will have a better understanding of why they talk the way they do, and readers who are not from the Midwest will know exactly what to say the next time someone ends a sentence with "eh?".

Harry Starke
Harry Starke

Author: Blair Howard

Publisher: CreateSpace

Published: 2015-09-10

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 9781517267902

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It's almost midnight, bitterly cold, snowing, when a beautiful young girl, Tabitha Willard, throws herself off the Walnut Street Bridge into the icy waters of the Tennessee. Harry Starke is there, on the bridge. Wrong time, wrong place? Maybe. He tries, but is unable to stop her. Thus begins a series of events and an investigation that involves a local United States congressman, a senior lady senator from Boston, a local crime boss, several very nasty individuals, sex, extortion, high finance, corruption, and three murders. Harry has to work his way through a web of deceit and corruption until finally.... Well, as always, there's a twist in the tale, several in fact. Harry Starke is a big fish in a small pond. He's a tough individual with a past and a conscience. He has friends in high places. He's single, successful, wealthy, a womanizer, well educated, and he will hurt you if he needs to. This is the first book in the series of Harry Starke novels.

Words on the Move
Words on the Move

Author: John McWhorter

Publisher: Henry Holt and Company

Published: 2016-09-06

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 1627794735

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A bestselling linguist takes us on a lively tour of how the English language is evolving before our eyes -- and why we should embrace this transformation and not fight it Language is always changing -- but we tend not to like it. We understand that new words must be created for new things, but the way English is spoken today rubs many of us the wrong way. Whether it’s the use of literally to mean “figuratively” rather than “by the letter,” or the way young people use LOL and like, or business jargon like What’s the ask? -- it often seems as if the language is deteriorating before our eyes. But the truth is different and a lot less scary, as John McWhorter shows in this delightful and eye-opening exploration of how English has always been in motion and continues to evolve today. Drawing examples from everyday life and employing a generous helping of humor, he shows that these shifts are a natural process common to all languages, and that we should embrace and appreciate these changes, not condemn them. Words on the Move opens our eyes to the surprising backstories to the words and expressions we use every day. Did you know that silly once meant “blessed”? Or that ought was the original past tense of owe? Or that the suffix -ly in adverbs is actually a remnant of the word like? And have you ever wondered why some people from New Orleans sound as if they come from Brooklyn? McWhorter encourages us to marvel at the dynamism and resilience of the English language, and his book offers a lively journey through which we discover that words are ever on the move and our lives are all the richer for it.

Elegy for the Southern Drawl
Elegy for the Southern Drawl

Author: Rodney Jones

Publisher: Ecco

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 116

ISBN-13: 9780618082490

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Exulting in the speech of his native Alabama, Rodney Jones's new poems combine satire and ode, formal lament and ribald joke. James Dickey praised this poet's early work as "one of our most poignant and inescapable renditions of the agony at the historical razor's edge." Now, in his sixth book, Jones extends his emotional and stylistic range. He writes of football and feminism, of DDT and family, of crows and sex, of ink and raccoons and perpetual-motion machines. In many of these poems the southern drawl lives forever, riding on the tide of regional language, poking fun yet delighting in it.

Speak With a New York Accent
Speak With a New York Accent

Author: Ivan Borodin

Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub

Published: 2012-06-01

Total Pages: 30

ISBN-13: 9781478156963

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Finally, the go-to handbook for pulling off a convincing New York Accent. Hollywood dialect coach Ivan Borodin invites you to benefit from twenty years of preparing actors for stage and screen. The New York born instructor outlines the major aspects of this famously aggressive accent, including: *Monotone delivery *Increased nasality *Favoring the upper lip *'Yuge' changes *Unraveling contractions After going through this program, you'll have the audience convinced you're a New Yorker mid-way through your first sentence. This course is innovatively supported by free-to-access YouTube videos. Study this book while a veteran dialect coach spoon feeds you the subtleties of the accent. Interested in mastering a New York accent? Then this course will take you there in a very different way. Benefit from the best of two decades of experience. Awaken the New Yorker in you with this straightforward publication from a dialectician with a profound love of accents. 'Speak with a New York Accent' takes the exotic art of performing with dialects and delivers easy-to-follow lessons. Break all barriers to learning the New York accent with this book, and at your next audition the casting directors will be scraping their jaws off the floor. This program is also extremely helpful for comedians and voice-over artists. Ivan Borodin has taught dialects and accent reduction since 1993 at Los Angeles City College and Los Angeles Valley College Community Services, and several other schools. He has worked as a dialect coach on several films, including 'The Truth about Angels'.

American Accent Training
American Accent Training

Author: Ann Cook

Publisher: Barron's Educational Series, Incorporated

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13: 9780764173691

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Directed to speakers of English as a second language, a multi-media guide to pronouncing American English uses a "pure-sound" approach to speaking to help imitate the fluid ways of American speech.