By Pronunciation, Dialects

Your speaking abilities surprised me as well. They are very comprehensible and I could understand you very well. You do have an accent, but accents are hard to get rid of, and as long as your pronunciation is fine, accents don't matter. My suggestions would be to: 1. Break up a few words...

Um….Where do I begin? Well, I am almost sure one or two of you on this forum may have already heard the story before. As I’d said many time before, learning English is much harder for Asians than Europeans for the simple fact that Asian langauges are not made up of alphabets, except Vietnamese....

Hello. My name is Norman Foldvari, I am an English major student at Debrecen University, Hungary. I am graduating this year and I am doing a little research on my own for which I would like to ask your help. I am writing my dissertation about English dialects and for this topic I have made a...

I am also Spaniard, and I resent the remark of the "white" Spaniard elite controlling the "poor" mestizos and Indians. We have no control over you anymore. You cannot blame your problems on us just becuase we have more money and still live in the beautiful motherland country. My ancestors just...

Hi Bluealbatross, I live near Newcastle, and answered your similar question in the thread entitled: "Received pronunciation and mid Atlantic English" ...but I've pasted it here in case anyone wants to continue on this thread: I don't think I'd recommend learning the Newcastle accent if you...

I don't think I'd recommend learning the Newcastle accent if you want to learn a British regional accent. Its often reckoned to be one of the most difficult of accents to understand - not only for non British, but for many British themselves! There are both vowel and consonant sounds that are...

Hmm, LanguageLover, I think the Wiki article suggests that the actors you listed actually promoted American dialect rather than speaking mid-Atlantic English - to a Brit like me they all sound especially American! I agree with the article that Christopher Plummer has a mid-Atlantic accent. As a...

The author is using the second meaning below. Main Entry: 1mas·quer·ade Pronunciation: "mas-k&-'rAd Function: noun Etymology: Middle French, from Old Italian dialect mascarada, from Old Italian maschera mask 1 a : a social gathering of persons wearing masks and often fantastic...

Randy_Tam wrote: 3. 'prescriptivism', defined as an explicit manner in which a person generalizes rules, is not necessary in L1 acquisition Thanks for stating how you define it. But don't dictionaries serve as a prescriptive tool according to this--to explicitly state the general usage...

Randy_Tam wrote:I am only taking Mandarin as a complusory second language credit course, my L1 being Cantonese Chinese, now considered a 'dialect' for no justifiable reasons, as there has never been a clear distinction drawn between a 'dialect' and a 'language': do the 2 not share the very...