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Patricklui wrote: Hello I am new to here. My mother tongue is Cantonese and I like to polish my English. It's known that English has two different versions : spoken and written. I have been learning English since I was a child and my written English is not too bad because this is what I...

I'm not familiar with MLB. In American English it is very common to omit the "t" when it follows a stressed syllable ending in "n" and precedes an unstressed syllable beginning with a vowel. "winter" and "winner" are indistinguishable. The absence of the t sound here is not an aspirated t...

It's not regional (except insofar as it seems to me to be more AmE than BrE) and not sloppy, in my opinion -- unless you want to say also that British speakers who say "choon" for "tune" are sloppy. It is "glide absorption", and it is the sine qua non of authentic American...

I am not sure about American English, but in British English I believe the final 'e' in 'convenient' is indeed pronounced as a schwa. As for the pronunciation rules, I don't think there are any in this regard. You will just have to check with the dictionary as MrM said.

Lcchang wrote: Dear teachers, When native speakers say " can " or " can't ", they sometimes speak so fast that I can't make sure if they mean can or cannot , especially in the movies. I know we can know better by understanding the context of the sentence they made. To improve it,...

HMFindlay wrote: this guy wrote : You can say "it broke into two pieces" or you can say "it broke in two" -- but "it broke to two" is a new one for me. Barb American English geeky4grammar.blogspot.com Google is a good tool for language learners to know what kind of usage...

In my opinion, it is imperative that you stray from the curriculum as it is set down. Otherwise you'll never accomplish your goal. You may have to do this by introducing your own very short lessons at first. With the level of student you seem to be describing I believe you will have to start...

Hi everyone, I've got a problem that neither my dictionaries nor the internet have solved. If I don't know how to pronounce those words, I can't read anything!!! Since I'm learning American English, I'd like an american point of view about this matter, though I think British pronunciation...

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Hello Mike in Japan- Arguments claiming American English to be a “dumbed down” or “lazy” version of British English are based on the erroneous premise that American English is a perversion of British English. Any real linguist will tell you that modern British and modern American English BOTH...