By Pronunciation, Accents

To all of you who want a British accent: Although I've mentioned on this website that I've made a website of poems, with my clear English voice recording attached to them, and although since last year almost 24000 people have visited it from across the world, I have never heard from anyone in...

There's a film starring Tom Cruise. He portrays a man from Ireland. He gets into fights for money but I don't remember the name of the film. I really didn't like his Irish accent. As for Dick Van D***, that was dreadful.

American English comes mostly from British English but long before Received Pronunciation. In British English, we often hear 'bottle' as 'bo - ul' with no indication that any 't' existed in the word. This is a common feature of London accents, especially cockney.

Hi,you sound like you want to imitate George Dubya, LOL Seriously, I'm going to comment on the first part, just on some features though: Belly wrote:Here is the script: The Beatles were an English group of musicians from Liverpool whose members were John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison,...

The recording is about 50 seconds long. And I know it's of crappy quality. Could any/some English speaking people help me out? For long I've been wondering about my pronunciation, but we never ever talked about that in class (and now my school no longer offers English as subject), so I would...

Hi,welcome to the forum.In many cases it is difficult to distinguish certain vowels. The sound could be either a schwa as in "run" or an "i" sound like in "did". But that depends on the accent too... Different accents have different vowel sets, and there are a lot of accents. Anyway, I was...

Royal999 wrote:1- best TTS?2- phonetics?3- real human sound? if yes, from where?Best TTS? I have no idea, since I'll never use one. TTS are meant for blind people, not ESL learners.Phonetics? What do you mean? If you want to know more about pronunciation and improve it, I have to say that the...

Hi, I have already posted a topic earlier where i asked for help with reducing accent. Another user wanted to get in contact with me but things didn't pan out. anyways with that behind us, I am wondering if there are any tips on how to learn proper RP pronunciation, and some training method...

Feebs11 wrote:Fuller is a relatively common name. As to pronunciation, Renee Fuller = ren-ee full-er I've never heard the name pronounced in an way other than the French: re-nay (accent on 2nd syllable).

Dear forum-ers, I was born in the UK and acquired the english language as a joint first language with arabic. My family moved back to our country when I was still a child, and although I always maintained a very high standard of spoken, and written english I unfortunately lost my accent. I...