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Initial p, t, k are aspirated. The same consonants after 's' are not aspirated, so they will definitely sound different to a non-English speaker. If your native language is Chinese, then you make contrasts between aspirated and unaspirated sets of consonants. To us English speakers it...

The /t/ in question (between /n/ and /s/) is but one of many "sycophant consonants" which occur naturally because of the way we must make transitions between consonants with certain movements of mouth, tongue, lips, etc. Dictionaries usually transcribe something fairly close to phonemes, not...

No offense Trevor, but your post comes off a bit insular, isolationist and ignorant. Why the heck would an American's inability to distinguish between British and Australian accents mean they have a different idea of what constitutes an accent? If anything, that should suggest that American's...

Hello Edward, There are tons of different sounds in English and in Spanish. For one thing in Spanish we only have five vowel sounds (a, e, i, o and u). But in English there is a difference between long and short vowel sounds. On the other hand, there are some consonant sounds in English that we...

Hi cball007, I found my notes which I jotted down in my ESL course. The difference between a and an is one of pronunciation, and so we also use an in front of a silent h because judging only by sound, the word begins with the vowel that follows the h. Examples: an hour, an honor, an herb...

when you say the R , what condition your mouth and toung should be ? DRAW THE BASE OF YOUR TONGUE TOWARD THE BACK OF YOUR MOUTH-- THE TONGUE IS NOT INVOLVED IN THE 'R' SOUND. AT FIRST, PRACTICE BY PUSHING YOUR TONGUE BACK AND OUT OF THE WAY WITH A PENCIL. and how do u say WORLD .do u say it...

There is no rule. Words with these prefixes have come about through accidents of history. The most usual is "un-", but always consult a dictionary. The following does not really answer your question, but you may find it somewhat useful anyway, especially if you're willing to work to dig some...

Hi Timbo, nice to meet you - haven't talked to you yet, have I? Where in Australia are you from? As I can see, your e-mail address is not an Australian one - do you live in Switzerland at the moment? I was wondering you knew about the German forms, so do you learn German? Actually, we...