In American accents^x, Pronunciation^x

SillyMe wrote: There is no need to improve an accent. Sometimes some work on pronunciation is required, but no more than that. Everyone should just make sure that he could be understood and that is enough. I've seen a lot of people who thought they were fluent in the language enough to imitate a...

Cvilla wrote: SillyMe wrote: I don't know much about Spanish. You know it better. May be proper pronunciation is important sometimes, but I think it depends on the place where you are living. There are no native speakers in my surrounding and everyone makes his/her own mistakes in speech....

SillyMe wrote: I don't know much about Spanish. You know it better. May be proper pronunciation is important sometimes, but I think it depends on the place where you are living. There are no native speakers in my surrounding and everyone makes his/her own mistakes in speech. Moreover everyone...

Cvilla wrote: Believe it or not, accents play an important role in the social environment. In the Spanish speaking world, colombian people may have a hard time understanding us costaricans because of the way most of us pronounce the "r" and because of the accent itself. To us, some...

Believe it or not, accents play an important role in the social environment. In the Spanish speaking world, colombian people may have a hard time understanding us costaricans because of the way most of us pronounce the "r" and because of the accent itself. To us, some colombian accents are just...

Just some additional comments. CalifJim wrote: First of all, I didn't think it was awful. (I mostly listened, not watching.) The following are some observations. It think that depends on your taste. For some people it's awful; for others it's not. CalifJim wrote: 1. The stress pattern is...

Teacher Eric wrote: All Americans speak with their own "brand" of American accent, but do all of them know how to teach others how to sound like them? We know that American English sounds different from Filipino English, but do we know what the differences are exactly? There's no doubt the best...

Hi, what your name? What you waiting for? I don't know if this is a matter of pronunciation, but it's strange. I often hear seantences like those as: Whuch your name? - Instead of "what's your name" Whuch you waiting for? - Instead of "what are you waiting for" Now, I think it can't be a matter...

Hi Yuki, thank you for your opinion. L.Yuki wrote: Hmm I normally heard people say how are you as well. Though, my native American friend told me it doesn't really matter how you stress it. Just depends on the situation, you can even stress any word you want >_> if it is needed. ...

Hmm I normally heard people say how are you as well. Though, my native American friend told me it doesn't really matter how you stress it. Just depends on the situation, you can even stress any word you want >_> if it is needed. Also, in one of the pronunciation book I have, there...