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Hi Kooyeen, Sounds like a good question for CJ. I haven't been to MW but plan to go. Mr. M got me some information there which I'd been unable to find elsewhere. I gather from your examples they use what I've heard called phonetic spelling, rather than the phonetic symbols I've seen on this...

Hi, For most learners of English, the goal is to learn to speak English clearly i.e. in such a way that one will be understood by all kinds of speakers of the language. High acceptability and native-like performance is rarely needed. I personally think you should learn your English from someone...

Hi David,here you can find some stuff about American English. Vowels, consonants, lots of stuff...http://evaeaston.com/pr/home.htmlOn that website there's also a link to this page, where the states are pronounced.http://evaeaston.com/pr/states.htmlIf you need to know how to pronounce a word in...

Hi Thorhath,it is interesting to know that 40% of the English vocabulary is from the French language, I could tell some examples: air, age, departement,...But I don't exactly know what you mean with "sound the same"? Do you mean the phonetic? If so, then I'd say, that French and English don't...

Royal999 wrote:1- best TTS?2- phonetics?3- real human sound? if yes, from where?Best TTS? I have no idea, since I'll never use one. TTS are meant for blind people, not ESL learners.Phonetics? What do you mean? If you want to know more about pronunciation and improve it, I have to say that the...

Thanks for the info./r/ follows the schwa in teacher in most American accents, but not in RP, which I tend to stick to for transcriptions. Do you have an American dictionary?Phonemic and phonetic are close, but not the same thing. Phonemic script consists of the (roughly) 44 different sounds that...

CalifJim wrote:Rhyming friend to stand sounds peculiar to me, and somewhat Texan, perhaps. It's definitely not standard. Thanks.Well, I'm not an expert on accents... but did you listen to the audio clip? Would you say pronouncing "again" that way sounds southern? I think I've heard that...

Hi Kooyeen, So.. you are just listening! Wow, it's much tougher. A-ha, you don't like her phonetic notation, do you?? LOL Kooyeen wrote:For example, I didn't try any of those exercises with the rubber band... I like that gimmic, well, pretty much. I even double-checked if she's kind enough...

... I noticed that all reduced sounds are not reduced to a fixed and definite sound, but they can take infinite kinds of schwas (schwas that tend e as in in bed, or that tend to i like in bid, or tend to u like in put...). Yup. Infinite sounds about right. ... This means that the set of...

Hmm, I see. When you said "reduction that are much less schwa like", you reminded me that... I noticed that all reduced sounds are not reduced to a fixed and definite sound, but they can take infinite kinds of schwas (schwas that tend e as in in bed, or that tend to i like in bid, or tend to u...