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Here is how i pronounce them, Basically, I just pronounce "R" as "W", for example: "read", i will pronounce it as "weed", "roll", i will pronounce it as "woll" You are rounding your lips too much, and you are not raising your tongue enough. To produce the /r/ you need to raise your tongue...

By plain "r" sound, I meant "r" when it appears at the beginning of a word - such as "rush" or "ring" or when combined with another consonant(s) in the middle of a word, like "scrape" or"anthrax". To my non-professional ear, American English and southern British English use an identical sound...

You could be right about it being North American English. As a Canadian married to an American, I hear the difference between our Englishes mainly in the vowels. Americans have another low back vowel - they make a distinction between "cot" and "caught" and Canadians do not.

To summarise everyone's comments Dominik - and also agree with you original statement - it's safe to say that, when learning British English, the "r" should not normally be pronounced EXCEPT when the following word starts with a vowel, where it always should. The letter...

schewa or schwa sound? This is the definition about schwa sound in wikipedia: "Schwa is the most common vowel sound in English, the unstressed vowel in many unstressed syllables, like the 'a' in about or the 'o' in synonym. Many British English (BrE) dialects have two schwa sounds, whereas many...

I'm not a native speaker, either, so I cannot explain you anything. I usually pronounce that final "r" like the British (that is, I don't pronounce it unless it's before a vowel). As for the word "here" and similar words, I do likewise. So, for example, in "here it is", I pronounce the "r", while...

I'm not familiar with MLB. In American English it is very common to omit the "t" when it follows a stressed syllable ending in "n" and precedes an unstressed syllable beginning with a vowel. "winter" and "winner" are indistinguishable. The absence of the t sound here is not an aspirated...

To say an unreleased t ('stopped' t, if you will) you place your tongue, lips, and jaw in the position for saying a t, but instead of carrying through with a definite (aspirated, released) t sound, you suddenly stop. You may even stop the sound in your throat at the same time (glottal stop)....

I understand that vowels in the unstressed syllables are often pronounced /ə/ or /I/ . My question is: how do I know when to use /ə/ and when to use /I/? The vowels in unstressed syllables are collectively referred to as schwas, or simply as schwa. When you see a schwa symbol in...