I suppose demicjusz is interested in how those words are pronounced by people who speak English, so I don't think my opinion here would be useful, since my spoken English doesn't contain many sounds apart from those that belong also to Spanish (so

Hi, yes, there are books that deal with stress, intonation, and pronunciation. I've read "American Accent Training" by Ann Cook. There's really a lot of stuff in that book (and on the 5 CDs). I haven't tried any other books anyway, so I can only

It seems to me that you are wrestling with the "Second-Letter Rule", which says that a single vowel letter (i.e., not combined with another vowel letter in a digraph) is pronounced tense if the second letter after it is another vowel letter,

According to a book on American English pronunciation ('Lesson 12: Central and Back Vowels', page 136. I don't know the name of the book, though), /a/ is the vowel of father, box or calm. However, almost every dictionary out there establishes a

Well, it depends on how you pronounce them. For example, you pronounce "go" as whereas I would say or . I would also use a schwa for "to": instead of saying . Thirdly, I would pronounce brothers as . I would also say rather than for "new". So you

Hi, this is interesting, it reminds me of something I read in a book for improving pronunciation (the famous "American Accent Training"). The title of the paragraph is "Spoon or Sboon?" She (the author) say: "Say spoon. Now say sboon. Hear how

8. Why do you say “She is a one-eyed teacher” and not “ She’s an one eyed teacher”? (Focus on a phonetic explanation) The article an is used before vowel sounds, not vowel letters. The word one is pronounced wun . The w is not a vowel sound even

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Thanks once again! CalifJim wrote: You heard correctly: derision and vision have the /Z/ sound. mansion and pension have the /S/ sound. The "s" is intervocalic in the first two of these (between vowels); the "s" is between the consonant "n"

These are four different sounds: /s/ /z/ /S/ /Z/ You heard correctly: derision and vision have the /Z/ sound. mansion and pension have the /S/ sound. The "s" is intervocalic in the first two of these (between vowels); the "s" is between the