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Sounds Perfect! is a user-friendly, practically-oriented manual for non-native speakers of English wishing to acquire a British English accent relatively quickly and easily. Without resorting to unnecessary theoretical details, the authors of this effective workbook offer a structured overview of all the sounds of standard British English, i.e. consonants, vowels and diphthongs. Each sound is illustrated with numerous examples, both in words and in sentences. The accompanying recordings allow the user not only to listen to the correct pronunciation of the sounds, words and sentences, but also to practise them.

The concept of this book makes the target audience quite varied, ranging from pupils in the last few years of secondary education to students in higher education, teachers looking for a concise reference work, motivated individual students, and professionals wishing to perfect their pronunciation. Moreover, the book is so designed as to be accessible to, and useful for, a wide range of users with different mother tongues.

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Sounds Perfect! is a user-friendly, practically-oriented manual for non-native speakers of English wishing to acquire a British English accent relatively quickly and easily. Without resorting to unnecessary theoretical details, the authors of this effective workbook offer a structured overview of all the sounds of standard British English, i.e. consonants, vowels and diphthongs. Each sound is illustrated with numerous examples, both in words and in sentences. The accompanying recordings allow the user not only to listen to the correct pronunciation of the sounds, words and sentences, but also to practise them.

The concept of this book makes the target audience quite varied, ranging from pupils in the last few years of secondary education to students in higher education, teachers looking for a concise reference work, motivated individual students, and professionals wishing to perfect their pronunciation. Moreover, the book is so designed as to be accessible to, and useful for, a wide range of users with different mother tongues.

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