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Hummingbird

#450117 Thu, 06 Dec 07 12:40 AM

{{Anyway, my problem was not about sounding American or anything, it was just about those words that are supposed to have more than one pronounciation, according to the dictionaries. I can't solve this problem completely though, even if I listened to the radio all day long.}}

-Keyoon

you don't have a problem , you're just looking for one ,,lol

{{A little example: take the word "with". It can be pronounced too ways, th as in think, or th as in there. Which one do I have to choose?}}

how hard can it be to solve this? just choose the one you like more.

now about that radio station "research channel'' ,, where can I hear it?

thank you Smile [:)]

Hummingbird

Joined on Sat, Dec 1 2007

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Kooyeen

#450464 Thu, 06 Dec 07 09:38 PM

Hi,
well, it's not that simple. For example, MW gives three possible pronunciations for "essay", but I guess only one of those is really common, and I'm afraid it's the last one they list. So, as you can see, it's not so simple. There are a lot of words like that... listed with a lot of possible pronunciations. Compare is cump-air. But comparable could be comp-air-uh-bul or com-puh-ruh-bul. Heh Smile [:)]

That channel is a TV, not a radio. You can watch it online, they broadcast a lot of interesting stuff taken from important universities, like lectures, etc.
Check it out.
http://www.researchchannel.org/

Smile [:)]

Kooyeen

Joined on Thu, Dec 22 2005

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