Accents & Dialects
The Dialect Resource
 Gillian Lane-Plescia
A teacher of Voice, Speech and Dialects since 1974, Ms. Lane-Plescia, who was trained in Britain, has been producing dialect materials for actors since 1989.
Each Dialect CD features a 25 page booklet and a 60 minute Dialect Instructional CD with examples given by both men and women speaking in their authentic accents.
Each CD includes a wide variety of accent variations, i.e. American South Volume 1 includes nineteen speakers from fourteen different locations across the South.
Individual CD & booklet $27.95.
Available now:
- Accents for Black Actors: Trinidad/Tobago; Montserrat; Haiti; Australian Aboriginal; Florida, Mississippi, Kentucky
- American South Volume 1: Arkansas; New Orleans; Northern Louisiana; Georgia; S. Carolina; N. Carolina incl. Smoky Mtns; Virginia
- American South Volume 2: Alabama; Georgia (Rome/Atlanta); Kentucky; Kentucky/Tennessee; Mississippi Delta; Greenville Miss.; Starkville, Miss.; Tennessee
- Chicago
- Australia & New Zealand
- British North Country
- Cockney
- French
- German & Dutch
- Irish Volume 1: Dublin & Belfast
- Irish Volume 2: Donegal; Sligo; Mayo; Kerry; Cork; Galway; Dublin
- Italian
- New York City
- Russian & Slavic: Russia; Ukraine; Poland; Czech
- Scots
- South African
- Spanish
- Standard British
- Welsh
Acting With An Accent
 David Allen Stern
An American Speech Pathologist and Dialect Coach, Stern presents clear and thorough instruction in a CD with 20 page booklet package to learn 26 different dialects. Each is available on individual CD.
Each one hour CD includes 6 to 10 lessons on pitch characteristics, stress patterns and musculature work for the dialect and demonstrations of vowel sounds and speech lilts in Stern’s own voice. The last lesson consists of a monologue with indications of stresses and pronounciations to be practised in the dialect with David Allen Stern as coach.
Individual CD & booklet $27.95.
Available now:
- American Accents for Canadian Actors
- American Southern
- Arabic
- Australian
- Boston
- British North Country
- Chicago
- Cockney
- Down East New England
- Farsi / Persian
- French
- German
- Irish
- Italian
- Mid-west Farm & Ranch
- New York City
- Norwegian & Swedish
- Polish
- Russian
- Scottish
- Spanish
- Standard British
- Texas
- Upper class Massachusetts
- West Indian / Black African
- Yiddish
 How To Do Accents
Edda Sharo & Jay Haydn Rowles
This book and accompanying CD provide the tools, insight and confidence to help you
“do” an accent. Not actually a manual to learn specific accents, it provides a firm framework and practical guidance to understand the structure of learning a new accent. The CD contains exercises and samples from native speakers in the USA; Ireland; Scotland; Wales and England. Softcover with CD $34.99.
 Accents: A Manual for Actors
Second Revised Edition
Robert Blumenfeld
This excellent introduction to over 100 accents from around the globe allows the actor to develop a repertoire of dialects. The text is comprehensive and easily followed along with two CDs on which the author gives examples and exercises. Softcover including 2 CDs $36.95.
Canajun Eh?
David Ferry
A CD without booklet presenting almost 40 examples of regional dialects from across Canada given by native speakers in conversation.
$25.00.
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