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Dialects of the United States by Paul Meier Book Summary

“Dialects of the United States” eBook, richly enhanced with Paul Meier’s own recorded instruction and beautifully illustrated, collects all 6 of his acclaimed American dialect-instruction series into this single publication in their entirety. (The more than 3 hours of recorded instruction are included in this eBook as conveniently embedded sound files, which are easily playable on Mac, iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.)<br>
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The 6 stage dialects Meier presents here are: American Southern, Deep South, Downeast New England, General American, New York, and South Boston (Southie).<br>
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Or for a better bargain, get "Accents & Dialects for Stage and Screen," (available at https://books.apple.com/us/book/accents-dialects-for-stage-and-screen/id1181641700), which contains these dialects plus 21 more.<br>
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Meier is one of the world’s most respected authorities on stage dialects, and is a successful dialect coach for theatre, film and voice-over. His accent and dialect instruction work is hugely popular with actors worldwide; he has coached film stars such as Tobey Maguire, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Mark Ruffalo, Dev Patel, Tom Wilkinson, Jim Caviezel, Simon Baker, Louise Fletcher, Bill Irwin, and many others. Professor Meier has trained actors at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA), the North Carolina School of the Arts, and other prestigious conservatories both in his native London, and the United States, where he makes his home.<br>
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Meier is a leading accent modification or “accent reduction” specialist too, consulting with Rosetta Stone and Global English, and coaching Fortune 500 company executives in both American English and British English.<br>
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He founded and directs the International Dialects of English Archive (IDEA), the leading online source for accent recordings of real-life speakers.<br>
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Meier’s system coaches the “signature sounds” of the accent/dialect and gives you fun word drills, sentences, and great audition monologues from plays and films. He even gives you access to recordings of native speakers and allows you to follow up with a Zoom session or earn a Paul Meier Certificate of Proficiency.<br>
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Enjoy browsing the preview copy, and then get the most widely used, fun, successful, and easy-to-follow dialect-instruction system on the market today.<br>

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