What is the rule for the use of "a or an" when using this sentence: My father is "a/an" M.D. I never know what to use because M is not a vowel but it sounds like one. I use "an" because it sounds better to me, to my

If vowels in a language are few,then it is hard to understand that language. and as I said "Because the consonants are mostly pronounced loose that makes it hard to recognise the words." No, because "few vowels" means there

Oh,I was almost sleeping when I wrote this last night and the diversion happened.I meant to say: If vowels in a language are few,then it is hard to understand that language. and as I said "Because the consonants are mostly pronounced loose

No, it has 5 (sometimes 6 or 7 - y, w) letters to represent some 14 to 16 vowel sounds.

so you have five vowels But English also has 5 vowels if I'm not mistaken.

the less vowels are in a language,the less hard it is to hear that language That's what Kooyeen and I have said, I think.

You mean that it has a few vowels but I think the less vowels are in a language,the less hard it is to hear that language.Because the consonants are mostly pronounced loose that makes it hard to recognise the words. What do you think? Thanks

Depends upon how you pronounce historical. Here is a snippet from http://www.orlapubs.com/AL/L58.html Usually rules become more general--with loss of restricting features. But sometimes they shrink. The rule dropping //h// before an

In my AmE: talk, caught, bought all have the same vowel sound. You can hear it pronounced HERE . Long, door, car and father have 4 different vowel sounds, which you should be able to hear at the same website as the link above.

; it is not cognitively productive to remember pronunciation of 1000's of foreign words. The easy way ...
to give up after a year, as it is very hard to remember pronunciation of 1000's of words