Subject Guides: Learning accents and dialects for acting: Dialect recordings for Acting

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Accent recordings at Trexler Library

Listed here are the several providers of accent and dialect coaching recordings available at Trexler Library. These recordings can be used to learn how to produce an accent or dialect when acting in a performance that requires one.

For links to the accents, see the A to Z list.

AccentHelp for actors by Jim Johnson
Publication Date: 2023?
AccentHelp’s team of coaches bring years of professional coaching and teaching experience in a package that leads you through the accent with recordings and written materials, plus thousands of recordings of native speakers, along with suggestions of video clips and movies.
Accents & dialects for stage and screen by Paul Meier
Call Number: 421.52 M511a
Publication Date: 2012 Edition 22 [new, improved ed.]
Contains Meier's instruction for 24 commonly used stage dialects... His famous seven step method is based on his proprietary signature sounds. The recordings contain Meier's instruction and demonstration of each dialect. He also cites native-speaker recordings for each dialect...
Acting with an accent by David Alan Stern
Call Number: 427 A188w
Publication Date: 2003
Acting with an Accent audios are used by actors around the world. Stern has taught this effective and enjoyable methods to hundreds of ESL teachers, speech pathologists, and voice & speech trainers.
Dialects of the British Isles by Paul Meier
Call Number: 421.52 M511d
Publication Date: 2012
An instruction manual for nine of the most commonly used dialects of England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales.