The best thing is to record yourself and compare to the original. I personally use this Iphone app - Molotsoft American Accent Practice. It does exactly this. <link deleted by mod>

To pronounce these words with an American accent, your tongue should never touch the tip of our mouth when doing the "r." (I'm from Pennsylvania in the Northeast by the way). Regularly = r-egg-yool-err-lee Particularly =

It makes it even more difficult when you look at the variations in the American Dialect. There is no "American Accent" --there are 7 recognized main divisions (Western/Californian, Upper Midwest, Midland, Southern, MidAtlantic,

Wow, I didn't expect someone to reply, let alone read my long post. I pay much attention to how people write on forums, but my sentence structure has stayed on a basic level. That's not true, you write well! I didn't explain this

Hi there, I have some advice, I don't know how much sense it'll make, but... I pay much attention to how people write on forums, but my sentence structure has stayed on a basic level. That's not true, you write well! I cannot

I am from California and a speaker of English and Punjabi. If you are trying to speak in an American accent, you might try to half-pronounce the letters as compared to Indian languages such as Punjabi where every letter is fully pronounced ending

I noticed that this question is tagged as unanswered. Received pronunciation is so named because it was 'received by', i.e. taught to public school pupils and RADA pupils. ( RADA = Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts ). You can hear example in

Hi Tom My pronunciation of "maximum" is apparently a little more "staccato" than yours, and there is definitely no Z sound. I might represent my pronunciation this way: macks-ih-mum The pronunciation in the M-W dictionary

Dear All, I need some help in understanding american accent, when i watch news in tv i am able to understand the american accent but when i direclty speak with or hear peoples speaking american accent i am not able to understand american accent,

Hi Kooyeen I'd like to tell you about what happened last night. I was watching a documentary on National Geographic Channel about an air disaster that happened in Los Angeles in 1986. It wasn't until the program was almost over that I