In American accents^x, Vowels^x

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...

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 Thanks

YoungCalifornian s result gt gt Surprise surprise Your Result Western This is what they speak in the western half of the US which is a pretty huge area Like Midland it is considered a neutral accent so most people you meet probably think you don t have an accent unless you re from the California...

Hi yes there are books that deal with stress intonation and pronunciation I ve read American Accent Training by Ann Cook There s really a lot of stuff in that book and on the 5 CDs I haven t tried any other books anyway so I can only tell you about that one It treats American English not British...

Unless you get the accent down perfectly it s unlikely that anyone will even be able to tell which dialect of English you learned For example Japanese speakers cannot make the vowel distinctions between General American and RP nor can they pronounce their final r s so they sound British RP no...

Has anyone else ever noticed that if someone speaks with a Southern American accent people automatically think they re not as intelligent as they d normally think I know it s true in some places because I speak with a thick southern accent and it s almost as if some people look down on you in a...

I ve heard British singers who tap their t s pronounce the o s in not god etc like the a in car ect Is that because they want to imitate an American Accent then Robbie Williams sings that way he s British so what kind of British accent does he have All singers sort of lose their accent when...

Anonymous wrote The American pronunciation of o in your next example wouldn t be found in any regional accent of British English that I can call to mind immediately though there is considerable variation in the pronunciation of this sound for example in Scotland Liverpool and the West Country...

It s rather hard to work out quite what you are looking for here Some of these features as Marvin A was pointing out are not specifically American English pronunciation but the allophonic variation that occurs in connected speech That is the pronunciation of some sounds is influenced by the...

since I m learning American English I wanted to know why that standard American Accent was awfulFirst of all I didn t think it was awful I mostly listened not watching The following are some observations 1 The stress pattern is slightly off Slightly too much rising pitch at the ends of phrases...