ABSTRACT
CDs and manual together enable the people to learn any of the twenty dialects presented or either of the two standard speech forms of English that are included. The CDs and the manual are arranged for the play-it-and-say-it method of dialect acquisition. The CDs present three broad groups of examples: a North American dialect group, a British dialect group and a group of European accents. The CDs also present two types of standard English-a selection of speakers of standard North American, including one Canadian, and a variety of speakers of standard British, several of whom use "received English", as it used to be called. Dialect usage remains, however, as an element in many important plays, and this manual and the CDs aim at preserving source material from living dialects for the actor's use. Three or more examples of each dialect or accent are presented on the CDs.
