By Accents, American English

Hi, Miriam! Thanks so much for your reply. Of course I'm still interested! 1. Sometimes when examples are given, certain forms begin to sound more acceptable. Strangely enough, only your example with "wish" still seems weird to me! The other two don't really sound that formal to me. I can...

Neither one is more correct, although dictionaries of American English usually provide phonetic transcriptions of the so-called Standard American English (Eastern American English). In the Western dialect, the "au" sound does not exist as a separate sound. Wherever the Eastern dialect uses that...

I just wanna know what I can do in order to understand British accent. I speak American English. I realized that I cant understand British accent at all after seeing The prince and me and Harry Potter. Why do British people sound really bad? or I dont think they are speaking English haha.

Southern American english varies widely in difficulty to comprehend. The deep south accents (Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi) are more difficult for me to understand when people speak. Then again, I live in Texas, so I am exposed to horrible drawling all the time (though my accent is not very...

Well, I heard that AmE was BrE a long time ago, when the Puritans came to America. But the British developed their language, whereas the Americans used the "old" language, so AmE is "old" BrE. For example the word "four". Long time ago, it was spoken by the British with the "r" as the Americans...

Hitchhiker- thanks for the stats. Barley From: South Korea Live in: New York, United States Languages: Korean- native, English- fluent, Spanish- studying as foreign lang. (6 yrs) Accent: American English Linuxlover- Are you Korean or part Korean? If so, I am curious about the Korean families in...

"There are very few American dialects which make it rather boring in my opinion!" Very wrong. I live in the Detroit area (the midwest, which has the most straightforward, untainted pronounciation of American english giving birth to radio/tv broadcasters all over the nation) and even the small...

well woodward, Portugal is very beautiful. There are quite a few differences between Portuguese from Brazil and Portugal, similar to the ones between British English and American English. The accent is very different, there are some differences in spelling and different meanings for the same...

Interesting, Advoca - but I'd also say, that both pronunciation and accent go together sometimes: Interestingly for me as a NON-native English speaker: I discovered that I can understand American English much better than British English EVEN though I was taught British English at school. I cannot...

Perhaps the outcome will not be decided by the English speaking countries, but by the educational policies of the developing countries. Learning English is now compulsory in China, the most populated and most rapidly developing country in the world. I'm not sure of its policy regarding the...