By Pronunciation, Dialects

So hey people, I am new to this forums, and I hope to learn a lot during my time here. I wonder if I could get some help on accents. Recently my interest in them has grown, but I also suck at it! I can't hear the difference between accents, may it be someone from Wales, UK, Scotland or Australia...

Anonymous wrote:>> Only one exception, after (the attachment was from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary) after the sounds like /ft/ <<Nope. There is no difference where it comes to the pronunciation in North American English and English English dialects of the /t/...

>> Only one exception, after (the attachment was from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary) after the sounds /ft/ <<Nope. There is no difference where it comes to the pronunciation in North American English and English English dialects of the /t/ in the word "after".

Thethenothere123 wrote:I feel as though the AmE vs. BrE distinction is largely exaggerated by non-native English speakers.Like a previous poster commented, your focus should be on using proper grammar and working to improve your pronunciation rather than worrying about the minor differences in...

The reason English is so difficult is because it's such a mishmosh language. Like a bad school-cafeteria casserole, it's got bits and pieces derived from many different languages, both existing and dead. It's primarily German, French, Latin, and Anglo-Saxon, but there's some old...

I see you pronounce "you're", "we're" and you'll diferently than I do. I normally pronounce them as for both of those. I thought that it was "pour" that had the variation. I was surprised that it was "poor", that could be pronounced like you pronounce it. I also assumed that is was...

>> Conservative Received pronunciation used to pronounce r's between words as a flap. <<Conservative Received Pronunciation is the dialect that used to be the standard, formal, educated, upper-class dialect in England. In this dialect, r's between vowels are pronounced sort of like...

Hwat for what is the original pronunciation and was the only form used in Middle English. In Modern English, many dialects lost the wine-whine distinction, and began pronouncing words spelled "wh" as simply "w", rather thn "hw". The original, conservative form is still around, and is considered...

Hi, Kooyeen, Kooyeen wrote:I know you won't like my answer, but... what's wrong? That part of speech was ok. My goal is to talk like that. Ok, not really like that, but that was not "non-English", so it was ok in the end (I guess). I never said it's "non-English", I said it was ""non-BBC...

Well, for one thing, the process that changes "nuclear" to /nuk@lr=/ is that same one that changed "brid" to "bird", so with that logic, it is a mispronunciation say "bird", because the "correct" pronunciation is "brid". Remeber, phonetics *describes* how words are said, it does not "prescribe"...