To tell you the truth, I've never heard any foreigner (unless they learned English when they were very young, or had lived in an English speaking country for at least a decade, and had extensive, and personalized accent coaching) ever be able to

I think the problem with his Standard American Accent is two fold- one, his native accent sneaks through a few times in the consonants as a few have pointed out. Secondly, and I think this is the deal breaker, he has some problems with stress

Pronunciation is very important, but with English that means stress patterns. Getting the stress patterns right for a whole phrase is often more important than getting every single word exactly right. The vowels can be off a bit, but the stress

8. Why do you say “She is a one-eyed teacher” and not “ She’s an one eyed teacher”? (Focus on a phonetic explanation) The article an is used before vowel sounds, not vowel letters. The word one is pronounced wun . The w is not a vowel sound even

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CalifJim wrote: er , ir , and ur followed by a consonant or at the end of a word are all pronounced the same. term, bird, turn, her, sir, fur verb, shirt, hurt, verse, dirge, curve ear followed by a consonant (but not at the end of

It sounds a little more like morphology, but I could be wrong. There are numerous cases where a particular alternation between two vowels (or consonants) occurs in this way. They occur in both the Germanic and Latinate components of English.

In my opinion, foreign students are taught the pronunciation of words according to the their first entry in the Pronunciation Dictionary (John Wells' Pronunciation Dictionary or Daniel Johns' English Pronouncing Dictionary - these two hold a good

Yes. er , ir , and ur followed by a consonant or at the end of a word are all pronounced the same. term, bird, turn, her, sir, fur verb, shirt, hurt, verse, dirge, curve ear followed by a consonant (but not at the end of a word) is

Thanks once again! CalifJim wrote: You heard correctly: derision and vision have the /Z/ sound. mansion and pension have the /S/ sound. The "s" is intervocalic in the first two of these (between vowels); the "s" is between the consonant "n"