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Jeffrey714  #334991  Fri, 02 Mar 07 05:14 PM

got suck at learning american accent cuz some vowel are difficult to pronounce........

need help here!anyone who's speak english in american accent plx give me some advice

One more question,Do americans speak a little bit faster?

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spinnaker  #334997  Fri, 02 Mar 07 05:17 PM
Double post. Could someone delete the older one? Thanks
  
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Kooyeen  #335074  Fri, 02 Mar 07 10:09 PM
Hi Jeffrey,
it depends what you need help with. Is it the vowel sounds that you don't know how to pronounce? Or you know how to pronounce a single word but you can't join different words together in a sentence? Much depends on your native language, also. Often Asians have trouble pronouncing r's, but for most Europeans that's not a big problem. I read a book on American accent not long ago, to try to reduce my foreign accent, and it really helped me a lot. But, depending on your particular problems, it might not be the right book for you. So let us know what your problems are in particular, then we will see. Smile [:)]

Americans speak fast? Well, let's say that the more I listen to Americans speak, the more they speak slowly. In other words, to us learners it seems they speak too fast only because we are not much used to the way they speak. Once you improve your pronunciation and after a little more practice in listening, you will find that understanding what you think it's impossible to understand is actually quite simple (it takes a lot of time though, I'm still practicing and still suck at listening, but I notice significant improvement anyway Smile [:)])

  
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Jeffrey714  #335126  Sat, 03 Mar 07 02:43 AM

sorry! I made a double post

  
Jeffrey714  #335135  Sat, 03 Mar 07 03:10 AM
the problem is i always forget the vowels.rly hard to get themin my mind.....
  
Kooyeen  #335667  Sun, 04 Mar 07 08:02 PM
Well, what's your problem exactly? You forget that the vowels in "country" and "county" are pronounced differently, for example? I forget a lot of stuff too, but I realized that's because I don't practice and listen enough. For example, if you hear and pronounce a word correctly a lot of times, then you are likely to remember it. If you rarely hear a word and never use it or pronounce it, then you are not likely to remember that word. Smile [:)]

  
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