By Tenses, Pronunciation

My dialect lacks final -ing in words of more than two syllables. Thus I use retain the engma, and the /I/ remains lax.

Yep. I'm serious. Here's how I say these words as compared to General American. "N" represents "ng"; upper-case vowels represent lax vowels, and upper case vowels represent tense vowels. I listed the word, first, the General American pronunciation second, and my pronunciation third. <ul...

Hello everyone! Could you have a look at the following sentence? Is it correct or not?-A student said that his pronunciation had improved/come on after he began listening to radio programmes in English. I'm in two minds about this sentence. I'm not certain that I can put the past tenses like...

Ohh you are right, he was asking for pronunciation.I misread, sorry.

Pidr1nhu, the question was does the pronunciation change. If you say "I can read" and "I have read," the way you say "read" changes. But the way you say "beat" does not change. Also, as an American, I would say "They had beaten more natural than "They had beat..." - What is the souce that say...

The pronunciation of beat does not change.

I am a native English speaker from the U.S. and I agree with Colombo (by the way, your writing in English is great), but it seems every person I have met who speaks English as a foreign language runs into pronunciation as the largest problem. Although the language obviously seems easy to me, we...

English grammar is ok to me because Ukrainian grammar is much more complicated (similar to Latin in a way) :-S The only REALLY odd thing about English grammar is the tense system. The great problem about learning English is pronunciation because it's rather peculiar (at least it seems so to me)....

That's a very big question. It can't be answered in a single post. The main differences are the pronunciation of r, the t between vowels, the sound of au, and the tense and lax os. CJ

I'm not familiar with MLB. In American English it is very common to omit the "t" when it follows a stressed syllable ending in "n" and precedes an unstressed syllable beginning with a vowel. "winter" and "winner" are indistinguishable. The absence of the t sound here is not an aspirated...