Acting With An Accent - Standard British - Lesson 2A

LESSON TWO: PRONUNCIATION CHANGES RELATED TO RESONANCE

The following vowel substitutions are extensions of the resonance shift you just learned. Repeat the words and sentences after hearing them on the CD. Don't just imitate the new pronunciations. Create the new muscularity, and let the British vowels grow naturally out of that change in speech impulse.

THE "LONG-O" as in GO HOME ALONE
no, go, home, alone, grow, solo, motion, explode
- Oh no, I won’t go home.
- Slowly the ocean rolled home.
- I wrote to Joe, hoping he would grow up.
- The rowboat slowly floated over the ocean.
- The oboe and cello sat alone, woefully echoing tone for tone.
- going home tonight - slowing down the car - owing lots of money

Here are extra "LONG-O" drills that aren't recorded on the CD:
* Long ago people slept on the cold earth.
* He was bloated from eating a roasted tomato.
* Of all the folks I know, he is the most hopeful.
* I told Joan that I was rowing on the Ohio River.
* Smoke was flowing out the open hotel window.