Hi, thanks for the reply. By "held" I mean "unreleased", and by "unreleased" I mean "not pronounced", that is, a glottal stop. That term ("held") is fequently used in the book who helped me improve my pronunciation. Anyway, this is too complicated

You can do just an unreleased T or an unreleased T with a glottal stop. I don't have the statistics, but it seems to me that just the glottal stop is less common. I don't know what you mean by held . You use that word a lot. Do you mean

Hi again, I'm so sorry, I should have read CalifJim's post about T's a little more carefully before posting. I see that there's also a glottal stop after R's, so the t in "smart" or "cart" is held. I see that there's a glottal stop (but sometimes

Marvin A. wrote: When speaking very rapidly however, it seems like the "t" disappears completely: It was a -> Ih was a, with no pause or glottal stop. Yeah, I didn't think of that... when speaking too fast, there's a lot of stuff that seems

When speaking very rapidly however, it seems like the "t" disappears completely: It was a -> Ih was a, with no pause or glottal stop.

Hi, I know a final T in American English is usually a glottal stop when it comes after a vowel sound. I'm not sure when it comes after some other sounds, though... net - gl. stop, I know cart, short - ? I think it's a gl. stop too connect - ? I

Hi Johnleo, I guess you are learning American English, aren't you? In American English... ...I think the t in network is a glottal stop, like in "not". You move your tongue as if you were going to pronounce the t, but when the tongue is in the

The following constucted dialect will give you what will sound like a Cockney accent to North Americans. All you have to do is change how you pronounce certain things differently and you will sound like a Cockney. The goal is to intruduce as many

Ville_maddengurl wrote: i want to give American accent up and learn English accent to talk more intelligible...is it OK now, MrP ..? I'm sorry, VM, you're going to have to speak much more slowly. In fragments. Without verbs. And say

I don't know, south east of England in between the working class and middle class accents. Working class accent but without the more extreme features such as dropping my h's and glottal stopping everywhere, or saying f for th, and using words like