And how about hafta, gotta, gonna, wanna, shoulda... even on the news - Peter Jennings started using them on the evening news! If I fully enunciated "have to" "going to", "want to" and other common reductions in a

Occasionally I've heard them pronounced with a sound more like 'oppor tyu nity', but that's very different from 'opper-chu-nity'. Ditto. I've never heard anyone use a 'ch' sound in that word, or in any of the

hi folks, I'm a freshman student at teachers' college and want to improve my English as much as I can. here, i wrote something for you to read in order to check my writing, grammatical or spelling mistakes. I should be handing this to

As per the dictionary, "before" is pronounced as / b -fôr/ and "behind" is pronounced as / b -h nd/ (in AmE and BrE). But couple of times, I've heard my European friends say "ba-fore" and "ba-hind". And

Hi friends, Now I am learning in english. if i speak in english someone misunderstood because my pronunciation is too poor. My friend suggest me to hear english audio repeatedly. So I need english verbs lists with audio like this Aback-adverb -

Hi friends if i speak in english someone misunderstood, because of my pronunciation is different. So I want to hear english in audio. Say for Example : Aback-adverb - taken by surprise we were actually taken aback by the news. This sentence

Thank you for the quick reply. YES, I definitely want to preserve the Irish pronunciation which I believe is Kee-an (as in Key and rhymes with Ian). Maybe your native Irish speaking friends will be able to confirm this. If so, will I be able to

I'm afraid I misread your post. So I guess the Irish spelling is Cian, and the spelling you plan to use is Kean, which is anglicized. With "Sean," (my son's name) the Irish spelling is "Sean" and the anglicized version

The other day i was checking out some websites and i read this. I thought it was funny and in a way, you never know but it can be useful. I"m going to paste it here and if you click on the links you can listen to it (i think). Perhaps this was

Hi, By the way " reais " is pronounced like " rêáis, ", but I suppose that in English it won't be correct to use the Portuguese pronunciation of the currency, will it? Your friend CalifJim said he'd probably pronounce