How to Pronounce Spanish Correctly (How to Pronounce)

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Summary: An excellent tool for improving your pronunciation
Review: This set includes a CD and a booklet for following along (if you want) with the recorded exercises. What a shame this is no longer in print as it is one of the best tools I've found for eliminating your English accent and speaking Spanish like a true native. I took a Spanish pronunciation class in college, and this work has all the essential elements we covered in that one-semester class. Our professor also gave us side diagrams of the mouth, tongue and lips that showed the proper placement of the tongue and lips when pronouncing the different sounds of Spanish. While this work lacks those diagrams, the English-speaking narrator frequently gives verbal instructions on how to do this. If you're serious about learning to sound like a native Spanish speaker, this work is one of the best tools for helping you approach that goal.

Since it is out of print, I'll mention another excellent text that you might be able to find. It's called A Drillbook of Spanish Pronunciation by Roger L Hadlich, James S. Holton, and Matias Montes (University of Hawaii). It was published by Harper & Row in 1968. It is a text only and does not have recorded examples of spoken Spanish or the diagrams I referred to. But it does have all the information (and maybe a bit more) contained in Passport Books' work. It is also out of print, but it has been in use at the University of Utah for their Spanish 330 course. Perhaps you can track down a copy through their bookstore.

Rating:
Summary: An excellent tool for improving your pronunciation
Review: This set includes a CD and a booklet for following along (if you want) with the recorded exercises. What a shame this is no longer in print as it is one of the best tools I've found for eliminating your English accent and speaking Spanish like a true native. I took a Spanish pronunciation class in college, and this work has all the essential elements we covered in that one-semester class. Our professor also gave us side diagrams of the mouth, tongue and lips that showed the proper placement of the tongue and lips when pronouncing the different sounds of Spanish. While this work lacks those diagrams, the English-speaking narrator frequently gives verbal instructions on how to do this. If you're serious about learning to sound like a native Spanish speaker, this work is one of the best tools for helping you approach that goal.

Since it is out of print, I'll mention another excellent text that you might be able to find. It's called A Drillbook of Spanish Pronunciation by Roger L Hadlich, James S. Holton, and Matias Montes (University of Hawaii). It was published by Harper & Row in 1968. It is a text only and does not have recorded examples of spoken Spanish or the diagrams I referred to. But it does have all the information (and maybe a bit more) contained in Passport Books' work. It is also out of print, but it has been in use at the University of Utah for their Spanish 330 course. Perhaps you can track down a copy through their bookstore.