About the Book and CD Set:

Analysis and overview of the dialects of the United Kingdom and Ireland with practice material for actors.

Mastering different accents and dialects can provide a huge advantage to your career. Dialects can instantly transform you into another person by affecting the very essence of who you are in the world – your speech. Dialects, for many actors, are enjoyable, useful tools. Paul Meier, a leading teacher of accents and dialects, and dialect coach for theatre and film, has helped actors the world over for more than 40 years with his booklets and CDs, to improve their "acting with an accent."

The Dialects of the British Isles contains all 9 of Paul Meier's individually available British and Irish dialects in one book; save on the cost of individual booklet purchases, yet get exactly the same material!

Dialects covered are: Standard British English (Received Pronunciation), Cockney, Northern Ireland, Southern Ireland, Scottish, Welsh, Hampshire, Yorkshire and Liverpool.

Using the book and CD's clear demonstration and simple exercises, no matter what your level of training, you will quickly become proficient in The Dialects of the British Isles you need in films, theatre, TV, radio, voice-over, ventriloquism, and stand-up comedy. These proven materials demonstrate all the "signature sounds" of the dialect in simple word lists, then in practice sentences, and finally in more challenging practice material. Paul Meier also demonstrates rhythm, intonation, and tonal placement.

All practice sentences and monologues are expressed both in the International Phonetic Alphabet (I.P.A.) and in Paul Meier's successful "number keying" system for the non-I.P.A. user. He concludes by speaking two great audition monologues (one male and one female) from a play or film in The Dialects of the British Isles.

About the Author:

Paul Meier is a dialect coach for theatre and film; a voice-over artist with many commercials and audio books to his credit; a theatre professor specializing in voice, speech, dialect, and heightened text; and works with clients on accent reduction and English as a Second Language (ESL). This has been his calling for over 40 years, both in his native London, in the United States where he is now based, and all over the world.