Hi Anonimous, I'm afraid I don't agree with you. As I said before I'm not a native English speaker but I've always been taught that B IR D is pronounced with a long vowel sound, the same sound you pronounce in nurse, girl, etc. If you look it up

It may be a characteristic of a particular group of people, or it may be an idiosyncracy of individual speakers. Other than the fact that "w" quite often influences the sounds of vowels (especially "a" and "o") which may follow it, there is no

Have to disagree with the vowel sound you use in B IR D is a long vowel. The long vowel "i" sound is the "i"sound in "find," "mine," "grind," "like," "tribe." The difference between the ir and er is, indeed, the accent. Probably has roots to

Hi everyone, There is a useful site introduced in the pinned post that demonstrates how to pronounce English sounds. All you have to do is to click on Launch English Library on the right side of the page (here is the link again:

I'm afraid to say that I don't think that there is always a rule, Guest. You'll master the different pronounciations of "o" after spending some time on pronounciation and listening. However, you can get some hint from your dictionary which gives

During the long linguistic history, I can only find three models of language. First one is Phoenician. We know that they invented the alphabetic system for the current alphabetic world. Yet they only recognized the consonants as information

I have think about this question. The answer is positive. For the Chinese Cantonese can detect nine tones in the average pronunciation. They are human being, like any of the people. Every time I talk about this, most English speaker feel sad. But

Of course we need consult IPA, but some of their concept require some change. For instance, some times, it is very hard to denote a 'Phonetic pattern' in any letters. It is not syllable, not CV note. 'man' is a syllable, it is not a CV note or we

Assuming you want every vowel sound including diphthongs, you're missing ... actor, best known for role in "Hill Street Blues") Is "haid" a verb too? I know of "hayed". "Haid" is either a proper name or

In American English, when an ending "-an", "-en", "-in", "on", "-ain" (not "ing") occurs after intervocalic "t", "tt", or "rt", the sound pattern /.tN/ is formed. When one of these endings occurs after intervocalic "dd", "d", or "rd", the sound