Written by Archie Jones and M. Irving Smith, each of these useful guides is a comprehensive and easy to use tool for achieving accurate pronunciation of the language in question.

Each guide includes:

• Phonetic Symbols ? an intuitive way to get a real ?feel? for the sounds in the language
• Pronunciations of letters ? each letter or group of letters is covered and related to the phonetic symbols
• Common Terminations and, in the German Guide, prefixes and how they relate to standard elements of tense and gender
• Vocabulary ? covering the essentials needed for conversation and musical context These concise guides will be a great boon for all students and teachers of singing.