Designed to prepare intermediate and advanced ESL students for understanding rapid, relaxed English, Sound Advice: A Basis for Listening presents a skills approach to discrete-point listening. Through systematic practice with such phenomena as linking, assimilation, and reduced speech, the book describes what native speakers are doing when sounds are put together, and why sounds are combined as they are.
Designed to prepare intermediate and advanced ESL students for understanding rapid, relaxed English, Sound Advice: A Basis for Listening presents a skills approach to discrete-point listening. Through systematic practice with such phenomena as linking, assimilation, and reduced speech, the book describes what native speakers are doing when sounds are put together, and why sounds are combined as they are.