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There are some differences in vocabulary and idiom across the British Isles, and you might encounter some regional words and expressions that you're not familiar with. But the core vocabulary and grammar are not hugely different, and you might find that a bigger problem is pronunciation. If...

Hi, the American Pronunciation you found is ok, and Merriam-Webster is the best (in my opinion) to check American pronunciations. The thing is you have to learn how to read phonetic transcriptions in the dictionaries you use, because often every dictionary uses its own conventions. Also,...

There is no /h/ and /w/ in the words "shah" and "shaw". There are the letters <h> and <w>, but it's a mistake to think that these letters are somehow determining which vowels you have in these words.

Hm, there's also: <> ------- scooch Pronunciation: sküch Function: intransitive verb Inflected Form(s): -ed/-ing/-es Etymology: origin unknown chiefly dialect : to crouch especially in hiding Citation format for this...

I agree with Jim. You don't change a language. It's like saying let's ban earthquakes Actually, trying to change something might result in more confusion in the end, because there will probably be certain groups that don't adopt such changes, or not completely, so you'd...

I wanted to mention that, that some people axe questions. It's a feature of some dialects (for example it's found in African American English). Merriam-Webster lists that pronunciation, saying it's dialectal.

I agree with you. Where I am from we have /əʊ/ and L AW sounds to me as /ɔ/ though. From what I heard from Austrailians, they sound sort of like a mix of British accents. I don't know. Maybe it is me.

because of my dialect, where all final N's are pronunced like English NG's. Hmm. You must be from the northwest section of Italy. Yes? Piedmont area? bang for bene ? __________ Oh, I'd like to ask wong more thing. If people in fast speech say "wom more", is it because the N...

Hi there, What is known as "Received pronounciation" in the UK is seen as the "posh" way of speaking English. This is how the Queen speaks, and was the way all TV presenters had to speak a few decades ago. Nowadays, there is no standard accent for teaching children the UK, and there is no...

The recording is about 50 seconds long. And I know it's of crappy quality. Could any/some English speaking people help me out? For long I've been wondering about my pronunciation, but we never ever talked about that in class (and now my school no longer offers English as subject), so I would...