Hi David, here you can find some stuff about American English. Vowels, consonants, lots of stuff... http://evaeaston.com/pr/home.html On that website there's also a link to this page, where the states are pronounced.

Royal999 wrote: 1- best TTS? 2- phonetics? 3- real human sound? if yes, from where? Best TTS? I have no idea, since I'll never use one. TTS are meant for blind people, not ESL learners. Phonetics? What do you mean? If you want to know more

Hi, yes, there are books that deal with stress, intonation, and pronunciation. I've read "American Accent Training" by Ann Cook. There's really a lot of stuff in that book (and on the 5 CDs). I haven't tried any other books anyway, so I can only

Hi, this is interesting, it reminds me of something I read in a book for improving pronunciation (the famous "American Accent Training"). The title of the paragraph is "Spoon or Sboon?" She (the author) say: "Say spoon. Now say sboon. Hear how

Hi, I'm having trouble with diphthongs, especially those in words like nice and down . Diphthongs consists of two vowels, so we will consider the first diphthong as /ai/ (nice /nais/), and the second as /au/ (down /daun/). Let's consider

My apologies to all who have e-mailed me. Because of my killer schedule, it would take some time before I can reply. But I do try to reply as best as I can. Just be patient with me because I get like 50 letters a week asking about American accent

Anonymous wrote: My apologies to all who have e-mailed me. Because of my killer schedule, it would take some time before I can reply. But I do try to reply as best as I can. Just be patient with me because I get like 50 letters a week asking

My apologies to all who have e-mailed me. Because of my killer schedule, it would take some time before I can reply. But I do try to reply as best as I can. Just be patient with me because I get like 50 letters a week asking about American accent

Hi All, I have been conducting Neutralized American Accent Training in Makati, Malate, Libis, and Quezon City for the last three months now. I have worked with Korean, Japanese, and Filipino executives, high school teachers, university

I was wondering how useful it is to have school teaching experience to teach second language users the language. If one has been an English teacher in schools and has dealt with syllabi on literature and language - can it translate to the learning