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Yes, the M-W is a typical AmE pronunciation of immediately . I have a feeling that, since you are a Spanish native speaker, your terminal consonants and consonant clusters ( stre ngths , fi rstly , etc.) are not as clear as your teacher would like; therefore she is asking you to stress the /t/...

Su Cheng Zhong wrote: During the long linguistic history, I can only find three models of language. These do not seem to be models of language to me, but instead models of writing systems. Do you really believe that Semitic languages do not need or use vowels? Semitic languages are highly...

I know that the word "the" is being pronounced differently based on the initial sounds of words. I know that some words take on different articles because 1) the sound "h" is not pronounced and 2) the letter "u" is being pronounced like "you." Is it safe to say that we can pronounce the word...

Hi, The rule regarding the pronunciation of "the" is such that it differs based on the word's sound - whether it is consonant-sounding or vowel-sounding. OK, but my question (sort of) is that in your educated guess, how people in those English speaking contries are conscious of that rule...

I disagree with this guidance. While P and B, and T and D, are very similar - the only difference being whether they are voiced - the S in both stick and spin are unvoiced, and there is no need to voice the P or the T early, before the vowel.

It really depends on your native language. If your native language has many of the same sounds as English, it may be possible to attain a speech pattern that is very close to American accent. If, however, your native language lacks most of the English vowel sounds, like Spanish or Italian, it...

Hi Bluealbatross, I live near Newcastle, and answered your similar question in the thread entitled: "Received pronunciation and mid Atlantic English" ...but I've pasted it here in case anyone wants to continue on this thread: I don't think I'd recommend learning the Newcastle accent...

I don't think I'd recommend learning the Newcastle accent if you want to learn a British regional accent. Its often reckoned to be one of the most difficult of accents to understand - not only for non British, but for many British themselves! There are both vowel and consonant sounds that are...

Hi hello!!! I guess you are a British native speaker!! I'm from Mexico and I'm delighted with British English mainly the southeast England accent...but wait a couple of days ago I watched the film Millions by Danny Boyle and I had a crush on this accent! It's supposed to be Newcastle accent...

Hi, I am having a debate with co-workers regarding which indefinite article to use preceding Hispanic. We agree the article a precedes words beginning with a consonant, the article an precedes words beginning with vowels. We also know an precedes words beginning with a silent h, and...