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It may be a characteristic of a particular group of people, or it may be an idiosyncracy of individual speakers. Other than the fact that "w" quite often influences the sounds of vowels (especially "a" and "o") which may follow it, there is no explanation from any phonetic principles I know...

Have to disagree with the vowel sound you use in BIRD is a long vowel. The long vowel "i" sound is the "i"sound in "find," "mine," "grind," "like," "tribe." The difference between the ir and er is, indeed, the accent. Probably has roots to British pronunciation (e.g., Director = British...

Hi everyone, There is a useful site introduced in the pinned post that demonstrates how to pronounce English sounds. All you have to do is to click on Launch English Library on the right side of the page (here is the link again: http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/about.html). The following...

I'm afraid to say that I don't think that there is always a rule, Guest. You'll master the different pronounciations of "o" after spending some time on pronounciation and listening. However, you can get some hint from your dictionary which gives the IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) phonetic...

The basic problem is 'interference'. This is what we bring from L1 to the L2 situation. It can be word order, vocabulary, misuse of cognates, phonetics, etc. A few examples: English speakers have problems with L2 because we reduce most unaccented syllables to schwa; most other languages are...

Dear Sir OR Madam I am writing in support of my application for the Master of Research in XXX. I graduated in March 199X from XXXX University with a degree in computer engineering. During my program, I had the opportunity to study in a course devoted to natural language processing, which has...

Dear Alls, Please help to comment my motivation letter. My English is poor, so please be patience to read it. Thank you in advance. Regards, Amarin ------------------------- Dear Sir OR Madam I am writing in support of my application the Master by Research in XXX. I graduated in March 199X...

Some people says that US and UK accents are totally different. Though, I dont find any relevant difference. Can anyone help me resolving my confussion? It really depends on what "totally" different is. And it again depends on what sort of accents you are looking at. For general discussion let...

Hello Edward, There are tons of different sounds in English and in Spanish. For one thing in Spanish we only have five vowel sounds (a, e, i, o and u). But in English there is a difference between long and short vowel sounds. On the other hand, there are some consonant sounds in English that we...

During the long linguistic history, I can only find three models of language. First one is Phoenician. We know that they invented the alphabetic system for the current alphabetic world. Yet they only recognized the consonants as information carrier. Then since Greek, the language recognized both...