By Spelling, Accents

I have mentioned this before on this website, but I hope it will help you. I am poet who has made available freely about 240 of my own poems on the internet, but I have also added my clear English voice to each poem to help both overseas students studying the English language and especially...

READ, LISTEN AND THEN PRONOUNCE HELP FOR ESL STUDENTS By Josie Whitehead, Cert Ed. Understanding principles of learning can be as important for students as for teachers – especially adult learners. FORMING GOOD HABITS WHEN LEARNING ENGLISH Here is something which I am sure...

Hwat for what is the original pronunciation and was the only form used in Middle English. In Modern English, many dialects lost the wine-whine distinction, and began pronouncing words spelled "wh" as simply "w", rather thn "hw". The original, conservative form is still around, and is considered...

this is a rant, and also a reach out for help. i've been living in the US for almost 9 years now, came when i was 14. I was born in croatia (native tounge) and live in germany for 7 years ( second language) then came to the US. I never had a problem learing german at all, never had a german...

and an ignorant American would look at British and pronounce practise (Br. spelling) like practize.... Highly unlikely.Americans on the other hand, have been butchering it for centuries and should not be consulted when learning this language. It is, after all, English and not American.Rubbish. ...

Hi KooyeenThere is nothing to forgive! I am certainly not in the least offended by your post. In fact, I enjoyed reading it tremendously! I even agree with you to some extent on some of the points you made. I am the first person to admit that my knowledge of English isn't as good as that of a...

I believe this question is best answered by someone who sees it from the former learner's point of view because natives don't have to go through the seemingly impossible phases that the ESL learners must go through. To put it in perspectives I would offer the following for your reference: ...

individuality and accent.. not too sure about that one.. Myself I do have a slight accent but when people have the tendency to say but your accent is so beautiful etc, well, what is not so beautiful about it is being ignored in a shop when asking for help, talked down to/talked to as if I am 5...

Xam0 wrote:There is definately an upstate NY accent. The vowels in the middle of some words are either changed or pronounced as dipthongs. Ill put the normal spelling of some words followed by the upstate NY pronunciation.. and then the north jersey pronunciation (where im from) which is fairly...

I think that there are two issues being confused here with 'standard' English. Standard English with regards to grammar and so on, and a standard English accent. We may speak a regional (non-standard) English accent (this is what the only 12-15% figure is talking about) but most people still use...