American Accent Training: With Downloadable Audio, 4th Edition: Cook, Ann: 9781438010359: Amazon.com: Books

I am not a native English speaker. I have been speaking English for about 15 years though and living in the US for 7 years. I definitely don’t have a thick confusing accent and Americans keep telling me that “your English is so good and you don’t have a difficult accent at all.” However, I don’t speak with an American accent 🙁
It has mentally put me under pressure (partly because I tend to be perfectionist) to the point that sometimes I don’t speak among others just because I don’t want to be that token person. So, I decided to buy this book and try to change my accent (although I am one of those people thinking that your accent forms in your childhood.)

Having gone through a few pages of this book and listening to the audio files, I have gained great info so far and am motivated to change my accent (even if it’s just getting closer a bit to the standard accent.)
I will update my review as time passes and I keep working through the book.

BTW, this book’s material and design is excellent especially the American flag design.
Every time I pick up this book I feel so patriotic. I know I wasn’t born here but the US is my adopted country and I would die for it. US of A 🙂

Update-1, 11/4/2017: Something has been really bothering me about the way phonetics has been done in this book. Why not IPA? We spend so much time learning IPA in order to use a dictionary and then all of a sudden in this book you see a new convention (that I haven’t seen anywhere else.) I am making my conversion table to IPA for this book and really wish that in the future editions the author would use IPA.