By Accents, Nouns

You have take into account different accents for one thing. Also, people in real life tend not to speak perfectly all the time. We mutter, we slur our words, we change our minds about what we are saying half way through, we stammer, we stutter, we have speech impediments, we are eating while we...

Before I tell you any advice, I think that you should know that some Amercans find an accent incredibly sexy. I can understand that you want to blend in, but don't beat your self upabout it if you can't completely perfect your accent.Okay, now, to improve your accent I think it might be...

The words listed below have the property you're talking about, Maple. Compared to the thousands of verbs in the English language, there really aren't that many. Yet, when faced with the list, it is a lot of words to learn! This is not an exhaustive list. Maybe others can add to...

The rule applies quite widely. There are a lot of verb-noun pairs with this property. What's frustrating, however, is that the pattern does not apply universally! I think you mean consent. Stress the second syllable whether verb or noun. CJ

Hi, all Some two-syllabled-words have different accent when the part of their speech changes, for example: survey n: SURvey, v: surVEY record n: REcord, v: reCORD How wide does this "rule" apply? (a more detailed one: How do you read concent when it is used as a noun,...

Hi Yuki,thank you for your opinion. L.Yuki wrote:Hmm I normally heard people say how are you as well. Though, my native American friend told me it doesn't really matter how you stress it. Just depends on the situation, you can even stress any word you want >_> if it is needed. I asked a...

It doesn't always happen with proper nouns, no, I live near towns called Thanet and Thurrock and they are pronounced with the 'th' not 't'. It's just one of those bizarre things you have to learn for each individual case. I'm not sure if it ever happens with common nouns in standard English...I...

Hi,I'm sorry, but there are no rules! You have to remember where the accent is, the same way you have to remember how to pronounce a word in English.Is it accent or accent? It's accent. Is it record or record? It depends, record is a noun, record is a verb. There's no rule, you have to remember...

Lesson 1: Basic Pronunciation The following will make you sound Southern to non-Southerners: Pin pen merger: Pronounce "pin" and "pen" both as pin Lesson II: Grammar

This is really badly off topic but I couldn't resist the temptation to comment on your correct observation. I understand very well that native speakers of English mispronounce foreign words because foreign languages are not studied much in English-speaking countries.Well, can you really blame us?...