Need to learn an accent for an audition? Got the part but can't quite grasp the sounds? Want to expand your repertoire?
The Accent Handbook is a novel approach to accent-learning, providing a practical, digestible and customisable way of learning any accent of your choosing. Drawing on the authors' extensive experience coaching students and leading stage and screen actors, the book offers more than 200 empowering exercises to actively explore and hone accent features. You can dip in and out or go from cover to cover, depending on your aims, what you're learning or how much time you have.
The book is accompanied by a wide-ranging and diverse library of contemporary accent recordings from across the globe. Uniquely, it also offers a guide to finding accent samples and getting more out of your listening. A section devoted to accent and acting delves into the powerful interplay between dialect, character and performance. Approachable and encouraging, this book is an essential companion to keep by your side as you take on an accent, from first listen to performance.

Lottie Williams-Burrell is Joint Head of Voice at Mountview, UK, and an accent and dialect coach for stage and screen.
Jessica Hammett is a voice and dialect coach who coaches performers across theatre and film and has worked with Academy and BAFTA award-winning actors.

Introduction
What is an accent?
Accent vs dialect
What are accents composed of?
Accent and identity
Accent is more than just geography
Accent bias
Why this book?
How to use this book
Springboard
Part A Speech
Your own speech anatomy
The vocal tract
The articulators
Jaw
Lips
Tongue
Soft palate
Part B Accent
Part C Acting
Accent and script
Approaching text
Introducing accent
Accent and character
Accent and situation
Accent and situation for character
Accent and situation for actor
Accent and situation for character
Part D Troubleshooting
Appendix A: Accent recordings
Appendix B: Recording material
Appendix C: Nonsense passage
Appendix D: Vowel spelling guide
Notes
Bibliography
Index