Mexican AccentThe AccentHelp Mexican-American accent materials cover the accent of Spanish speakers from American border towns and various places in Mexico when they speak English. Mexican accents are strongly influenced by the fact that most speakers have learning American English - north or south of the border, aquí está! |
Mexican Accent Learning Materials
- The Mexican accent materials include recordings of AccentHelp coach Michelle Lopez-Rios guiding you through learning the accent, using the text, as well as a number of recordings of native speakers. Along with coach Jim Johnson, Michelle gathered these recordings over the course of many years - bringing their experience to you in this download.
- This download comes in a PDF edition. It's currently being updated and expanded to be offered in four versions of the written materials: a PDF file to print or read on a standard computer, a large-format PDF for portable reading devices, and MOBI for Kindle and EPUB for other portable readers. But you'll get the update as soon as it's available - FREE!
- This accent is appropriate for productions of Zoot Suit and other plays. You also hear it in films like Selena and on The George Lopez Show.
- Mexican and Mexican-American accents have a lot in common with other Spanish-language accents, such as New York Latino/Nuyorican and Castilian Spain, but there are very distinct intonation elements, as well as sound changes that are unique to a Mexican accent, that Michelle will guide you through.
Audio files (53.1MB, 72 minutes)
- Introduction to Sound Placement, Intonation, and Helpful Hints for speaking with a Mexican accent (8:23)
- Consonant sound changes for learning a Mexican-American accent (9:38)
- Vowel sound changes for Mexican accents (4:12)
- changes to Diphthongs in Mexican-American accents (1:57)
- Alternate Pronunciations for words in English and Spanish (3:16)
- Wrap up for learning a Mexican-American accent (2:20)
- Brownsville Texas Male reading (1:09)
- + his conversation (2:13)
- 2nd Brownsville Texas Male reading (1:13)
- + his conversation (2:56)
- Brownsville Texas Female reading (1:16)
- + her conversation (:52)
- 3rd Brownsville Texas Male reading (:59)
- + his conversation (1:16)
- Mexico Male reading (1:10)
- + his conversation (3:02)
- Mexico Female reading (1:42)
- + her conversation (1:08)
- Monterrey Mexico Male reading (1:14)
- + his conversation (1:16)
- Mexico Female reading (2:11)
- + her conversation (3:15)
- 2nd Monterrey Mexico Male reading (1:21)
- + his conversation (2:04)
- Mexico City Mexico Female reading (1:03)
- + her conversation (3:00)
- Nuevo Leon Mexico Female reading (1:20)
- + her conversation (4:12)
- 3rd Brownsville Texas Male Spanish reading (1:18)
- Brownsville Texas Female Spanish reading (1:15)
Most of these recordings are made "in the field" so you will hear such things as birds, cars or other people in the background. A transcription of the conversations is included to help you follow along.
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