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English is my second language . However , I've learnt the British cockney and BBC English for 4 years and now my native speaker friends say I sound like a native speaker too . The bad side is that i'm having problems switching from british to north american english though i'm going to study in a...

There's nasal and then there's nasal. There are no nasal vowels in English, whether British or American, particularly when compared with the nasal vowels of French, say. Still, some listeners feel that American English is somehow more nasal. I don't hear it that way. Individual speakers may...

Would you please specify which English words or letters need the nasal pronunciation in General American English . Is General American English the same as Standard American ? I'm interested in western american / californian - which has got the nasal pronunciations .

in arabic language we say to a female different phrase and to a male different phrase Arabic=" Ahibak" when a female says to a male Arabic="Ahibish" when a male says to a female Arabic="Ahibij" when a male says to a female I am talking about Bahraini Arabic, There are a lot of accents,...

I'm a native of Brooklyn who is currently in California. I've been told that I have an educated, sort of upper-class Roosevelt-esque accent. But my vowel in "hot" is very open, broad, and hard-sounding as opposed to slightly closed upper-class one. I am not fond of the mainstream American...

Hi Guys, I'm a new member to this forum, but I'm already excited to be a part of it. Anyhow, I'll tell you alittle about myself. I'm a second year journalism major at Michigan State University with aspirations of becoming a NewYork Times writer. One day I hope to publish my own magazines, but...

Hi Faintest Scent, I'm from HK, so I think I understand where you're coming from. Until 1997, a British accent was deemed highly desirable in HK (Pygmalion syndrome). My parents made me listen to a bunch of British audio tapes. (The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain. ) That helped...

I have a little difficulty when I hear films in American English, to tell the truth, sometimes I cannot make out some american actors/ actresses for example Humphrey Bogart and Harrison Ford. This also happens to me when I hear some scottish or irish ones. What I mean with all this is that in...

Hello, I am an american english speaker (east coast mid maryland) so i have got much of an accent compared to most mericans. I plan to move around the south east london area and have decieded that I would like to get used to the Estuary English dialect/accent. I know lots of people think its...

Hi , um this is not really answering yer question om sorry. I am an english speaker, of american english. East coastal without much of an accent. I am moving to South East London at somepoint in the next year or two. Ive gotten quite a liking to EE. I was wondering if anyone knew of any Wav....