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 - Great book for REAL American pronunciation!This is an excellent book - tape for those who want to learn how to understand American/Canadian "everyday" language. It is very clear in the way pronunciation is explained and the practice material is fun! Rating: - Fast-Spoken English in a Fast-Moving WorldWhaddya say is a practical book for serious-minded second language learners of English who want to communicate quickly in real world settings. Formal English listening/speaking training in pre-college classrooms prepares students to carefully articulate prepared speeches, but it lacks in preparing English language learners to listen and respond to real world conversations in dynamic domains. Typical examples (although, not included in the present book) might include conversations that take place in the stock market and conversations between pilots and air traffic controllers. In both situations, the verbal component of communications is time sensitive. Nina Weinstein's book and tapes focus on enhancing listening and speaking skills using both slow and relaxed, fast-spoken English. Nina Weinstein outlines the most commonly used reduced forms of English sounds in twenty short chapters, introducing the most simple reduced sounds (like you --> ya) to the more complex reduced sounds that are found in advanced grammatical structures (coulda, woulda, mighta). Whaddaya say incorporates short, yet practical conversational exercises at the end of each chapter. The exercises require the Whaddaya say cassette tape. Completion of this book, accompanied with a professional ESL instructor, will result in an increased situational and linguistic awareness of the ESL learner's surroundings. Rating: - Whaddaya say?This book may finally overcome immigrants' resistance to speak English the way it is actually spoken by the vast majority of Americans, the way English actually sounds. Their first reaction to "Whaddaya wanna do?", "Whacha doin back there?", and "Can't cha find an apartment?", is "No, this is wrong. I don't want to speak like that. Only uneducated peole speak that way." But gradually resistance breaks down and their pronunciation improves drmatically. The book has the further advantage of achieving its goals without the International Phonetic Alphabet, which intimidates most students. Would that Nina Weinstein now wrote a "Whaddaya say" reader with ordinary and "whaddaya say" spelling on facing pages. Rating: - A wonderful book!After my students studied from Whaddaya Say, they could finally understand the English spoken around them. This book makes it so easy! There are twenty lessons that teach the most popular English pronunciations -- reductions like *gonna, *wanna, *hafta, etc.. The lessons are really easy to understand. I recommend it to anyone who has to understand spoken English. Rating: - A bestselling basic listening bookWhaddaya Say is in its twenty-fourth printing. This popular book is basic to anyone who wants to understand spoken English. Whaddaya Say teaches the twenty most common reduced forms (*gonna -- going to + verb, *wanna -- want to, etc.), then contextualizes these forms into natural conversations for listening practice. It you're interested in understanding spoken English, and you can only buy one book, this is it. page 2 of 2
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