Home
Forums
Tests
Friends
ESL Chat
Pics
Videos
Home
»
All Tags
»
Vowels
»
Dialects
Tags
The larger the tag, the more commonly used it is. You can also search for things like
images
. Click '
Tags
' to return to the beginning.
Adverbs
Articles
Clauses
Commas
Constructions
Conversations
Dates
Difference Between
Essays
Expressions
Grammar
Idioms
Nouns
Numbers
Paragraphs
Past Tenses
Plurals
Prepositions
Present Perfect
Pronouns
Regards
Tenses
Universities
Verbs
Whom
Browse All Tags
What's hot
Losing money
Why in quotes
"as if" conditionals
Please rectify this letter
Sth as American as mom and apple pie
School letter
Taking blood / receiving blood / collecting...
Comptitive offering
Just one short question.
Singular & plural words
In
Vowels
x
,
Dialects
x
Accents
Adverbs
Allophones
American Accents
American English
Antonyms
Approximants
Articles
British Accent
British English
Consonants
Conversational English
Definite Articles
Difference Between
Diphthongs
Fricatives
Glottals
Idiolect
Images
Intonations
Nouns
Numbers
Phonetics
Pronunciation
Regards
Sample
Scottish Accents
Speak English
Spelling
Synonyms
Tenses
Universities
Verbs
Weddings
Whom
Re: phonetic transcribing (British English)
Here's how I'd say the first sentence if I put on a British accent: I must go to see my brother's new house. represents. Same for "crop".
English Audio: Speech and Pronunciation
by
Marvin A.
1 yr 342 days ago
Vowels
,
Accents
,
Dialects
,
Phonetics
,
British English
,
British Accent
Re: phonetic transcribing
Some things to keep in mind: ? = glottal stop @ = ə I don't know what your dialect sounds like, but I can tell you how mine differs from others: -Notice that I use lots of glottal stops (the ?). If your dialect pronounces them as "t's", then replace all the ?'s with in most other dialects--but...
ESL General English Grammar Questions
by
Marvin A.
1 yr 343 days ago
Dialects
,
Vowels
,
Phonetics
,
Diphthongs
,
Glottals
Re: phonetic transcribing
Well, it depends on how you pronounce them. For example, you pronounce "go" as
ESL General English Grammar Questions
by
Marvin A.
1 yr 343 days ago
Dialects
,
Vowels
,
Pronunciation
,
Phonetics
Re: Canadians and their English
The Western and Central Canadian English dialect does have several differences from conservative General American, although many dialects in the US have some or all of the same features that are found in Western/Central Canadian English. Western/Central Canadian English is actually closer to...
ESL Linguistics Discussion Forum
by
Marvin A.
1 yr 344 days ago
Vowels
,
Accents
,
Dialects
,
Pronunciation
,
American English
Re: Defining American English
So what's your definition of American English (or North American English, as some prefer)? I would probably define it mostly by its phonology. It would be pretty hard to define. Or why not just say, any dialect of English spoken in North America? Is there a standard for American English? Not...
ESL Linguistics Discussion Forum
by
Marvin A.
1 yr 344 days ago
Vowels
,
Accents
,
Dialects
,
Articles
,
Pronunciation
,
American English
,
American Accents
,
Idiolect
Am I all alone?
Do any of you have some or all of these features as well, or are they peculiar to my dialect? Here's how I pronounce some words compared to a General American accent: when and win sound identical; pin and pen do not Windy and wendy sound the same; wind and wend do not I pronounce 'set' as 'sat'...
English Audio: Speech and Pronunciation
by
Marvin A.
1 yr 350 days ago
Vowels
,
Accents
,
American Accents
,
Dialects
Re: Northern and Southern English
Chameleon wrote: I would group the major english American accents thusly: SOUTHWESTERN: Texas, Arizona, New Mexico Hmm. Texas has several distinct accents: the Southern dialect; a cot-caught merged dialect with the Southern vowel shift; the Northern accent found in the large cities, and the...
English Audio: Speech and Pronunciation
by
Marvin A.
1 yr 351 days ago
Vowels
,
Accents
,
American Accents
,
Dialects
Re: raw and broad
Well, my dialect possesses the father-bother-don-dawn-cot-caught merger, so raw, broad, rot, dot, dog, and taught all have the same vowel sound.
English Audio: Speech and Pronunciation
by
Marvin A.
1 yr 351 days ago
Vowels
,
Dialects
Re: golf and gulf
CalifJim wrote: I have heard gulf pronounced only one way Really? Which way? The Southwesterners that I met tended to pronounce "ul" /@l/ as .
English Audio: Speech and Pronunciation
by
Marvin A.
1 yr 351 days ago
Vowels
,
Dialects
,
Pronunciation
Re: British Accents
>> There might be dialects that you're not aware of that use and thus he started hypercorrecting himself. A North American often hypercorrects himself when putting on a British accent.
English Audio: Speech and Pronunciation
by
Marvin A.
1 yr 354 days ago
Vowels
,
Accents
,
American Accents
,
Dialects
,
British Accent
© 2008 MediaCET Ltd.
Terms and Conditions
&
Terms of Service