The Scottish Dialect
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3.0 • 2 Ratings
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- $29.99
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- $29.99
Publisher Description
"The Scottish Dialect" eBook, richly enhanced with the author’s own recorded instruction, and beautifully illustrated, is one in Paul Meier’s acclaimed accent-instruction series. Two dozen others are also available as Apple Books eBooks. No actor can go far before being asked to perform in this dialect. From Shakespeare up to today’s drama, Scottish characters abound, and Meier gives you the tools to tackle them no matter what part of Scotland they hail from. Or for a better bargain, get "Accents & Dialects for Stage and Screen," (available at https://books.apple.com/us/book/accents-dialects-for-stage-and-screen/id1181641700), which contains this dialect plus 26 more.
Meier is one of the world’s most respected authorities on stage dialects, and is a successful dialect coach for theatre, film and voice-over. His accent and dialect instruction work is hugely popular with actors worldwide; he has coached film stars such as Tobey Maguire, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Mark Ruffalo, Tom Wilkinson, Jim Caviezel, Simon Baker, Louise Fletcher, and many others. Professor Meier has trained actors at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA), the North Carolina School of the Arts, and other prestigious conservatories both in his native London, and the United States, where he makes his home.
Meier is a leading accent modification or "reduction” specialist too, consulting with Rosetta Stone and Learnship (formerly Global English), and coaching Fortune 500 company executives in both American English and British English.
He founded and directs The International Dialects of English Archive (IDEA), the leading online source for accent recordings of real-life speakers.
Meier’s system coaches the “signature sounds” of the accent/dialect and gives you fun word drills, sentences, and great audition monologues from plays and films. All sound files are embedded in the eBook. He even gives you access to recordings of native speakers and allows you to follow up with a Zoom session or earn a Paul Meier Certificate of Proficiency.
Enjoy browsing the preview copy of this eBook, and then get the most widely used, fun, successful, and easy-to-follow dialect-instruction system on the market today.
Customer Reviews
Understand what you’re buying
To appreciate Paul Meier’s series, one must understand what you’re buying. Paul analyzes exactly what an actor needs to focus on in order to give a compelling rendering of an accent. He breaks down the accent into signature sounds, giving several examples of each. He includes soliloquies so that you can hear an uninterrupted series.
But you’re not going to get a large volume of material to imitate. Paul helps you identify exactly, precisely, what you need to master. It’s up to you to then go out and listen to accents on YouTube or elsewhere and replicate them.
The Scottish Dialect is no different from the others in this series. (I own seven now.)
It is pricey. I believe Paul has a collection of all of his works which is still pricey but a massive savings over buying them individually.
Highly highly recommend this approach to learning an accent or dialect. I have used it convincingly on stage (so say my directors and audiences) and even fooled people on the streets.
Too short
As soon as I started this book, I thought that it was exactly what I was looking for. It gives practical examples and a linguistic, technical explanation. I sat down to start on what I expected to be a lengthy read. Unfortunately, I finished in a very short time. This book is only 69 pages. SIXTY NINE PAGES! That's all. What is there is well done, but this seems like one short chapter of what should be a very long book. I'm terribly disappointed that I paid this price for such little material.