Hmm, can I answer even though I am not a native speaker? I would say "thee eagle" because I learned to pronounce it "thee" before vowel sounds. Words like "university" and "wall" don't really start with

First of all, you need some grammar too, because I noticed typical Asian mistakes, or non native constructions anyway. i'm live in PRC <-- I live in... Here's the best tips I can give you: 1 - Get a grammar book, and read it, learning

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.

Oh! I didn't know of that thread! It's about different kinds of schwas... I wanted to open a thread like that too, but then I thought "It's gonna be a mess to discuss that", so I didn't post. So I see it's not only me that thinks there are a lot

Hi again, I'm so sorry, I should have read CalifJim's post about T's a little more carefully before posting. I see that there's also a glottal stop after R's, so the t in "smart" or "cart" is held. I see that there's a glottal stop (but sometimes

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