I don't think I'd recommend learning the Newcastle accent if you want to learn a British regional accent. Its often reckoned to be one of the most difficult of accents to understand - not only for non British, but for many British themselves!

Hi hello!!! I guess you are a British native speaker!! I'm from Mexico and I'm delighted with British English mainly the southeast England accent...but wait a couple of days ago I watched the film Millions by Danny Boyle and I had a crush on

If all this is confusing Jack, remember that in both words, 'r' is silent in british English , but is pronounced in American English.A standing rule is that after any vowel if there is'r' in the middle of a word, it is not pronounced. And for any

I'm only getting question marks for those symbols, but if you are referring to the R-colored vowel sounds in "bird" and "winner", the difference should be explained by a speaker of British English, where there is a difference. As an American, I

Hi Xcats, This is related to the spelling of the past tense forms of regular verbs; it also applies to the "ing" form. spelling of regular affirmative past tense forms Most regular verbs: add -ed work —worked help —helped start —

He already said that the current version supports mid-western=20 American (presumably Caught=3DCot), but that you can edit the=20 pronunciation table on which it is based. This, of course, would be=20 a major undertaking - particularly if you

It seems just a bit stranger in the case of ... on "David Packard of Hewlett-Packard", how did they do it? The only transcription I've seen here of the "correct" American pronunciation of "Packard" contains a

'Round here we use /@/ for a schwa; /&/ is ... consider the pronunciation too obvious to wasteink and paper on. A good online source for BrE phonetics is Cambridge AdvancedLearner's Dictionary at , which uses IPA.For

"Fernando G" (Email Removed) schrieb im Newsbeitrag As a native Spanish speaker I have a hard time to distinguish thedifference between the vowels in * cut * cot * caught Are there any clues on how should I shape my

It seems that every time I post a comment it provokes a load ofdiscussion threads. But not to be detered, ... changes. Forinstance, they say " 'ospikal" when they mean "hospital", or "ee 'ant gotnone" instead