By the way, do you happen to know any good books on English phonology you can recommend? What I'm looking for is something more than an accent reduction course, something comprehensive, where important phonological features are not omitted or

I don't understand what you mean, it's just that "would do it" and "will do it" both sound somewhere around /wʊdːʉɪt/ to me, in connected speech. Maybe the difference lies in the vowel... I susped the vowel in

Well, perception is not a one-way street. As a native speaker, one may not represent phonology explicitly. There are native speakers, who are specialists in phonology, phonetology, phonetics: these guys can distinguish sounds more sophisticatedly

The first thing you need is an accent reduction course, because you need to learn the phonemes. For Amercan English, I suggest "American Accent Training" by Ann Cook. For British English, I suggest "English Pronunciation in

I've been struggling to notice the difference between these two consonants but as spanish speaker I'm so used to pronounce them as if they were only one sound. If I spoke fast, would it matter? I know the difference according to what

Hello all. I want to select for my stories for children site (URL removed by mod) a voice narrator. The problem is that I do not have such an english level to choose the best person if more than one speak very fluently What should I check for to

I thank you all for your effort to help me and of course for your time... I think my questions were answered. Especially a reply by Marvin A. completely answered my questions. What pronunciation to choose depends on what American accent you want

I've been away from this forum for a while, and meantime I've enrolled for a five-year (gulp!) degree in English (which includes grammar, literature, linguistics, and so on) at a distance university. Right now I'm starting to delve

AJ Hoge's "effortless english" is a waste of money. I made the mistake of buying it for a friend who doesn't speak much English and she doesn't even use it. I don't blame her because it takes a lot of effort to learn with

So in Webster words talk, caught and bought are written as ˈtȯk, ˈkȯt, ˈbȯt but I also read in some textbooks on General American English accent that those words are also pronounced as ˈtäk ˈkät ˈbät. So I don't know what pronunciation is