
How To Do Accents
Methuen Drama (Publisher)
Published on 17. June 2021
Book
Paperback/Softback
224 pages
978-1-350-26731-2 (ISBN)
Description
This unique book offers a complete course in how to do any accent and also gives you the tools to navigate your way through a specific accent. Using solid technical know-how, clear practical steps, real-life examples, and the occasional dose of humour, the Haydn/Sharpe System brings to the surface the underlying structure of accents. The authors share the processes that they, as specialist dialect coaches, have developed, to give you the insight, tools and confidence to work with accents.
This second edition includes examples and exercises for six new accents.
Includes a free online code to access detailed exercises and sample sentences - giving you the sounds you need to get your accent skills going! Also includes ready-to-use resource recordings of the following accents:
Norfolk (NEW), Yorkshire (NEW), Standard Canadian (NEW), Standard Australian (NEW), Standard American, Northern Irish (Belfast), Southern Irish (Cork), Scottish (Glasgow), Newcastle, Manchester, Liverpool, South Wales (Swansea), West Midlands (Walsall), Cockney, Neutral Standard English, Contemporary 'Street' London (NEW), Cornish.
This second edition includes examples and exercises for six new accents.
Includes a free online code to access detailed exercises and sample sentences - giving you the sounds you need to get your accent skills going! Also includes ready-to-use resource recordings of the following accents:
Norfolk (NEW), Yorkshire (NEW), Standard Canadian (NEW), Standard Australian (NEW), Standard American, Northern Irish (Belfast), Southern Irish (Cork), Scottish (Glasgow), Newcastle, Manchester, Liverpool, South Wales (Swansea), West Midlands (Walsall), Cockney, Neutral Standard English, Contemporary 'Street' London (NEW), Cornish.
More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Dimensions
Height: 215 mm
Width: 141 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
299 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-350-26731-2 (9781350267312)
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Other editions
Additional editions

Edda Sharpe | Jan Haydn Rowles
How To Do Accents
E-Book
09/2014
2nd Edition
Oberon Books Ltd
€25.49
Available for download
Persons
Edda Sharpe & Jan Haydn Rowles are two of Britain's leading, professional voice coaches with many years' experience of teaching and developing voice-coaching methods. They both teach at the acclaimed East 15 Acting School in Essex.
Content
1. Acknowledgements and Thanks
2. Introduction
3. Get Started
4. The Foundations
5. The Two Planets
6. The Bite
7. The Shapes
8. The Groove
9. Get Professional
10. Useful Stuff
11. Appendix
2. Introduction
3. Get Started
4. The Foundations
5. The Two Planets
6. The Bite
7. The Shapes
8. The Groove
9. Get Professional
10. Useful Stuff
11. Appendix