American Southern: Hard-R 2

(146.4MB, 161 minutes)  Updated 2010 edition

This download includes numerous recordings of native speakers. This download is designed to serve as a supplement to all of the sound files included in Accent Help’s American Southern Hard-R download.  The ebook for this download has been updated to include a typed transcription of every one of the conversations.

Unlike most Accent Help downloads, this download does NOT include a written examination of the accent, nor does it include files featuring an Accent Help coach teaching the dialect. This features recordings of native speakers:

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1. Female from Langdale AL reading
2. + her conversation
3. Female from Birmingham AL reading
4. + her conversation
5. Male from Maynard AR reading
6. + his conversation
7. Female from Mountain View AR reading
8. + her conversation
9. Female from Izzard County AR reading
10. + her conversation
11. Female from Timbo AR reading
12. + her conversation
13. Male from Helena AR reading
14. + his conversation
15. Female from Big Flat AR reading
16. + her conversation
17. Female from Panama City FL reading
18. + her conversation
19. Male from Fernandina FL reading
20. + his conversation
21. Male from Cairo GA reading
22. + his conversation
23. Female from Whigham GA reading
24. + her conversation
25. Male from Vidalia GA reading
26. + his conversation
27. Male from Vidalia GA reading
28. + her conversation
29. Male from Savannah GA reading
30. + his conversation
31. Female from Gainsville GA reading
32. + her conversation
33. Female from Wakefield KY reading
34. + her conversation
35. Female from Berea KY reading
36. + her conversation
37. Male from Louisiana reading
38. + his conversation
39. Male from Ebarb LA reading
40. + his conversation
41. Female from Natchitoches LA reading
42. + her conversation
43. Female from Natchitoches LA reading
44. + her conversation
45. Female from Delhi LA reading
46. + her conversation
47. Female from Bastrop LA reading
48. + her conversation
49. Female from Mansura LA reading
50. + her conversation
51. Female from Oil City LA reading
52. + her conversation
53. Female from Meridian MS reading
54. + her conversation
55. Female from Kiln MS reading
56. + her conversation
57. Female from Lebanon MO reading
58. + her conversation
59. Male from Western NC reading
60. + his conversation
61. Female from Wise NC reading
62. + her conversation
63. Female from Janesville NC reading
64. + her conversation
65. Female from Blackwell OK reading
66. + her conversation
67. Female from Blackwell OK reading
68. + her conversation
69. Female from Checotah OK reading
70. + her conversation
71. Female from Pamlico SC reading
72. Male from Pamlico SC reading
73. Female from Bristol TN reading
74. + her conversation
75. Female from Bristol VA reading
76. + her conversation
77. Female from Big Hill VA reading
78. + her conversation
79. Female from Danville VA reading
80. + her conversation
81. Female from Tidewater VA F reading
82. + her conversation
83. Male from Richwood WV reading
84. + his conversation

Most of these recordings are made "in the field" so you will hear such things as birds, cars or other people in the background.  

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