Cameron - Perfecting Your English Pronunciation

Praise for
Susan Cameron and
Perfecting Your English Pronunciation

Susan Cameron has provided us the ultimate toolbox in Perfecting Your English Pronunciation. Students are newly baptized with such clarity of language with her outstanding text. Highly recommended for any non-native speaker needing to reduce their accent.

James Calleri, CSA
Associate Professor and Head of Acting, Theatre MFA Program
Columbia University School of the Arts

Working with Susan and her book took my American accent to a new level and increased my confidence dramatically. It is an indispensable aid for anyone who is learning an American accent, and incredibly user-friendly

Charlie Cox
British actor, star of Netflix/Marvels Daredevil

Susan Cameron is one of the pre-eminent voice instructors in the county. Her transformative technique is smart, practical and essential.

Pippin Parker
Dean, New School of Drama, MFA Program
Associate Dean, College of Performing Arts
New School University

Susan worked with my two principal actresses in Snow Flower and the Secret Fan. She did accent reduction with them and helped them say their dialogue with more fluency. She was an experienced and creative coach.

Wayne Wang
Film director, The Joy Luck Club, Maid in Manhattan, and Smoke

Susan Camerons focus on difficult-to-speak sound combinations, extensive word lists highlighting English spelling patterns, and accompanying recordings which serve as a mini pronunciation dictionary, all make this book a must for speakers of English as a second language.

Patricia Fletcher
Associate Professor, New School for Drama
Author of Classically Speaking

In my experience, there is no one more insightful and profoundly gifted. Students under her tutelage are radically transformed and become significantly more competitive in their fields.

Robert Lupone
Former Director, MFA Program, New School for Drama
New School University

Susan sets a new standard for excellence in the field of ESL pronunciation. You wont find a better wealth of knowledge in a single source.

Dr. Pamelia Phillips
Author of Singing for Dummies

Copyright 2018 by Susan Cameron. All rights reserved. Except as permitted under the United States Copyright Act of 1976, no part of this publication may be reproduced or distributed in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the publisher.

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For all my students, past, present, and future,

and

in memory of my father, Harold T. MacDonald,

who instilled in me a passion for the English language

I would like to thank the many people who have made this book, video recording, and audio recording set a reality. I am indebted to McGraw-Hill Education, and especially to my wonderful editors Holly McGuire (original edition) and Christopher Brown (revised edition) for guiding me through the process of publication. I am eternally grateful to my colleagues, who have taught me so much and who continue to inspire me daily, especially Patricia Fletcher and Deborah Hecht.

For the text of the book, I thank Patricia Fletcher and Nick Cianfrogna for their editing suggestions and input. Thanks, too, to those who helped me in the early writing, especially Sara Wolski, literary consultant extraordinaire; my sister Meg MacDonald, for editing support; Keith Buhl, for lending me his IPA font; Diego Galan, for assistance with the business text in ; and Theodora P. Loukas, for compiling and typing the numerous word lists.

I am grateful to the talented people who helped create the video and audio recordings: Nick Cianfrogna for lending his terrific voice to the extensive word lists, and Mariah Cruz of Dubway Recording Studios for her impeccable sound engineering skills; Theodora P. Loukas, producer and director; Maggie Mei Lin, filmographer and editor; and Carlos Cano, Chih Hua Yeh, Wayne Liu, Dimitri Letsios, and Angelo Niakas. Special thanks to Anne Goulet, for the Fred artwork; Aaron Jodion, for the video music; and Eric Maltz, for editing and mixing the example sentence recordings. I am especially indebted to Theodora P. Loukas and Maggie Mei Lin for making the videos a reality.