Beschreibung:
Now available in a book-and-CD format, Evangeline Machlin's classic work teaches actors one of their most challenging tasks. From a Russian accent and a German countess, to a Midwestern farmhand or Yiddish, these accents, and many more, are clearly explained.
Part One - The Actor, the CDs and the Manual, Part Two - Using the Dialect Texts and the Dialect Data, Part Three - Steps in the Play-It-and-Say-It Method of Learning Dialects, Part Four - North American Dialects, Part Five - Standard English: North American and British, Part Six - Dialects of Great Britain and Ireland, Part Seven - European Accents, Part Eight - Symbols and Sounds of the International Phonetic Alphabet