Sample Exercise:“We all last went to the cinema on this past Tuesday to see the new comedy.”
This is the industry standard for the dialect of English spoken in India. The sub-continent of India is a country of around 1 billion people speaking over 400 different languages. Fifteen official languages exist for the country and its various states. Yet the history of the English language in India is very strong, and English is a co-official language, and so for stage dialect purposes, the dialect presented here will serve at least as a starting point from which adjustments and refinements can be made, depending on the background of the character to be portrayed. Learn to speak like Ben Kingsley in Gandhi and the characters in E.M. Forster’s A Passage to India! (Paul speaks the entire text himself. So you hear him demonstrate, in dialect, the signature sounds in isolation, the word lists, the practice sentences, and the two monologues.)
TO PURCHASE:
The Indian dialect is available by purchasing Accents & Dialects for Stage and Screen. We recommend the Deluxe Streaming version for $79.95, which gives you the dialect of India plus 26 other dialects and accents. (This is a printed book with the audio files available on a password-protected webpage.) The original CD version of the book, with 24 total dialects and accents on 12 CDs, is also still available.
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You may purchase the iTunes ebook (Apple Book) version of Indian directly on iTunes by clicking this link, for $29.99. This will play on your iPhone, iPad, and Mac, using Apple’s free Books app, but NOT on your Windows PC.
