When I attended school in the late Middle Ages, I never wondered whether I was taught British or American English. I suppose I was taught both: differences in pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar. I find it strange that anyone would like to

I think it was in the late 70s in Las Palmas that I met an American who pronounced can't in the British way . I found that quite peculiar. He told me he came from the vicinity of New York, I don't remember the town or city. Yet he

It is all about pronunciation; you must have been taught incorrectly in the '50s. Let's look at a primary source for what's right or wrong in English. Quoting from the OED: "There is still some divergence of opinion over the form

Hello, another English teacher here. I have been teaching English in China for about 2 and a half years now and also speak fluent French, decent Spanish and am learning Chinese (not as hard as you may think once you get the hang of those tones,

Milky wrote: CalifJim wrote: A native tells me that it does occur in such as the second example. The native must have misunderstood the question. Does it No. , and if it does, why? And is it widespread? No. "gonna" has to be followed by a

Hi, not that I know of. You "practice" listening in a variety of ways... just listen to the radio, watch some videos on Youtube, etc. If you find difficult to "listen", either you need to learn more words or you need to improve your pronunciation.

Hi, they are very different. Can't you hear the difference between these two? Click on them: /ae/ => /caet/ --- CAT /a:/ => /ca:t/ --- COT You can check this out too: American Vowels That comes from this webpage

"I much prefer the attitude of the British. They have enough respect for the language to use correct spelling, clear enunciation and to observe the correct use of prepositions and general grammar. On the other hand, some Americans seem to like

Hi, what is it that you find difficult, in particular? There are no "peculiar" sounds in there... So I don't really understand your problem. Anyway... Here is what Merriam Webster says, you can check on that dictionary if you need to know how to

What you hear as an R in "water" (wa r er) we natives hear as a D, and we would spell the pronunciation as "wader", but I think you've got the general idea correctly. In American English there are many cases where T sounds like D (You would