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Hi! How I wish I know you're name so I could type it with this note. Anyhow, nice to receive this response from u. Thank you for giving high regards to us when it comes to speaking English. It's because we were once colonized by the Spaniards and the Americans. You are right when it comes to...

Nona The Brit wrote:There isn't a singular British accent that they could all have started with anyway. Britain has many very different accents. Unless everyone just stuck with people from their own area and accent, I'm sure everyone started picking up aspects of other accents on the boat over,...

I have just read aloud an excerpt from a local newspaper. I intentionally slowed down to improve the intelligibility and I'd like everyone of you to comment on: 1. the kind of accent I have; 2. the intelligibility. Here is the article: 'Lovers often spend their most romantic hours sharing a...

Hi, I'm not a Cockney but I was born and bred near London so have heard the accent quite a lot. Do you really need Cockney? I ask as there are not really many people who speak in that accent anyway - certainly not all working-class Londoners. There is a sort of general south/east London/Essex...

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I agree with the advice people gave you so far. Don't worry about not living in the US, I didn't either and I didn't have major problems getting an American accent. Just be patient and allow yourself enough time to change your speaking patterns. Losing an accent is not something you'll be...

Here's a quote from the Wikipedia article : "Voiced consonants may be devoiced in word-final position, this is normally done in Russian." That's the way he seems to pronounce "skill(s)" and the final consonant in "language" sounds kind of devoiced to me. Or maybe I'm just imagining things and...

I saw this explanation from the Collins/Cobuild dictionary. P/S tell me why the underlined word get only stressed the letters "NA," not the whole word "banana." Sentence stress is an accent on certain words w/in a sentence. Function words, such as articles, prepositions, conjunctions, and...

Believer wrote: 1) How would one be allowed to use this kind of the quantifier in front of a uncountable noun. My instinct tells me this adjectival phrase is used correctly but need your affirmation.] Adjectival quantifying phrase: a bit more & noun: sense When he was younger and head a...

Hi, 1) How would one be allowed to use this kind of the quantifier in front of a uncountable noun. My instinct tells me this adjectival phrase is used correctly but need your affirmation.] Adjectival quantifying phrase: a bit more & noun: sense When he was younger and had a bit more sense....