Learners Products
Our Materials were created specifically for adults
What exactly do we mean?
- LDS suggests that our products are best used by intermediate+ second language learners of English.
- The look and feel of our products is designed for adults – not for children who may be more motivated by busier graphics and/or a game approach to learning.
- The language and idiomatic speech fits the more sophisticated, complex ‘feel’ of adult communication. This is your best assurance that these materials will challenge users to build their best communication skills for adult, working/living-in-the-mainstream English environments.
Here’s a quick overview of items you can find in our Online Store:
Tools for Improving Accent
Peek inside the best-selling M.E.E.C.Series – Workbooks and audio content for foreign and regional accents, in a variety of packaging options.
Tools for Language Skill Building
‘Consumable’ workbook series, such as the M.I.A.E. Series for adult idiom use, functional vocabulary building (Getting A Fix on Vocabulary), reference volumes, and intriguing CD Rom editions (i.e., Spelling Fusion).
Includes spiral-bound workbook.
Innovative, comprehensive, “cutting-edge” approach to accent modification. Take communication training to the next level. Find it in the LDS Web Store!
Contains workbook and one audio cd
An innovative, comprehensive, cutting-edge approach to accent modification designed for intermediate to advanced students in the healthcare professions. Find it in the LDS Web Store!
Assess medical professionals’ pronunciation and intonation patterns before and after training. This assessment tool is a companion piece to Medically Speaking: Accent Modification for the Medical Profession. Find it in the LDS Web Store!
If the medical community is your focus, this is a welcome tool! Everything about this program tailors to these professionals: themes, vocabulary, idiomatic speech – even the length of the program!
Nancy Hiser, M.A., CCC-SP, is the founder of English Talk Shop (formerly, American SpeechSounds.) We have distributed the interactive Personal and Professional editions of American Speechsounds since 1995. Since then, we added American Speechsounds for Healthcare and her software vowel pronunciation game for adults: Is ERnie an attORney? Continually improving with our fast-moving tech world, English Talk Shop’s products are now downloadable in 2012!