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Accents & Dialects

The Dialect Resource

AccentsGillian 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

Acting with an AccentDavid 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 AccentsHow 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 ActorsAccents: 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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