The only way to hear a difference is listening to contrasting pairs, in my opinion. Minimal pairs, you know. Beat - bit fool - full etc. If you have such major problems, then maybe you could start with an accent reduction course. For American

Hello again. Sorry for the delay. I was distracted by a horrendously written online encyclopedia. But, anyway . . . "This guy is a burglar! A wrong 'un in pants in the heart of Brazil." Wrong 'un means a person of bad character

American-English was British-English, except that it was altered significantly by all of the various influences (immigrants/languages from other countries) that learned to speak it in America. Everyone in the UK knows how to communicate in English

Are you sure they speak standard American or British English? It sounds like it might be from a sort of dialect of English. Where I live nobody puts that pronoun there. The only meaning it might have, to my ear, is a sort of enthusiastic emphasis,

No, it's a slow and pretty "common" British accent, and if I was more used to listening to British English I guess I would understand everything. But I'm not used to British accents, so I can miss even the simple words, plus the

At 22:57:16 on Sat, 26 Sep 2009, Paul (Email Removed) wrote in (Email Removed): But it might be different in India. Could it be? The English used in India is British English or International English (if the latter is different from ... criticised

The Indian Minister of State for External Affairs, Shashi Tharoor (author of ‘The Great Indian Novel’) was in the eye ... never be a reference to actual individuals. What does the group feel could be the possible connotations of this phrase?

Hi , Could you please tell me which one is more common among native speakers? 1) I've always been in her bad books. I say and hear this sometimes. It seems quite ordibary tovme. Perhaps it's a British English expression. 2)

What is 'the/a short end of the deal'? -- the disadvantageous side. Does this date expression 7/5 mean 7th of May? -- Or the 5th of July. No matter what any style guide tells you, there will always be confused readers if you use numerals only.

What is 'the/a short end of the deal'? Does this date expression 7/5 mean 7th of May? Is there any difference in British English and American English? Thank you for your help.