Well, I usually hear it that way, and Ann Cook in American Accent training told me to do so, so I think I'll go on pronouncing them that way. I could upload the short audio examples she uses to teach the difference between those two kinds of

Hi, not that I know of. You "practice" listening in a variety of ways... just listen to the radio, watch some videos on Youtube, etc. If you find difficult to "listen", either you need to learn more words or you need to improve your pronunciation.

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

Teacher Eric wrote: All Americans speak with their own "brand" of American accent, but do all of them know how to teach others how to sound like them? We know that American English sounds different from Filipino English, but do we know what the

Hi, what your name? What you waiting for? I don't know if this is a matter of pronunciation, but it's strange. I often hear seantences like those as: Whuch your name? - Instead of "what's your name" Whuch you waiting for? - Instead of "what are

Hi Yuki, thank you for your opinion. L.Yuki wrote: Hmm I normally heard people say how are you as well. Though, my native American friend told me it doesn't really matter how you stress it. Just depends on the situation, you can even stress

Hmm I normally heard people say how are you as well. Though, my native American friend told me it doesn't really matter how you stress it. Just depends on the situation, you can even stress any word you want >_> if it is needed. Also,

Gaia74 wrote: Hi Kooyeen, what's the name of this book? Hi, it's American Accent Training, by Ann Cook. It comes with some CDs. I don't know if there are other that could be better, but I know that's a very popular one. It is a good way

I may be able to help you with that. I teach American accent and pronunciation in Manila, Philippines and one of the books I own has helped me greatly. I'm not sure if the book is available stateside but if you're interested, please post