Hello all. I want to select for my stories for children site (URL removed by mod) a voice narrator. The problem is that I do not have such an english level to choose the best person if more than one speak very fluently What should I check for to

What do you mean? There are allophones of /t/, yes... At the end of a word (if nothing follows), /t/ can be pronounced in three different ways, as far as I know: 1) Released: you can hear the /t/, which is sometimes aspirated to some extent 2)

Hi I would like to know if there are any differences between the allophones of British (RP) /t/ and American (GA) /t/ specifically at the end of words such as 'ba t ', 'ca t ' , or 'hesitan t ' and 'restauran t '.

Well, it might just be the actor's accent that is confusing then. I seem to hear a bit of an r-sound before the vowel in trumps/charms too, so it would be more like "trom(p)s" (pronounced with the American vowel). But as Amy said, I

Hi, in this moment I'm in Scotland and the accent is very diferent for another parts of UK sometimes I don't understand nothing.. :P

Amazon.com 'Acting with an accent - british received pronunciation' (about 30 dollars) with a CD by David Alan Stern - the best course ever but if you think it is going to be easy - I am telling you it is not ;)) warning: he teaches the

That doesn't mean you have to post 18 times. You shuda combined them into a single post. Since we're preaching up proper English here, please, don't post "kind-of-chat" language here. I don't belong to the set

AJ Hoge's "effortless english" is a waste of money. I made the mistake of buying it for a friend who doesn't speak much English and she doesn't even use it. I don't blame her because it takes a lot of effort to learn with

Hi Ivan I can't say whether or not your first sentence is accurate, though I imagine there are linguists who think that way. It's hard to agree or disagree with your use (twice) of the word "many", since that word is fairly

Many linguists consider accent to be the indicative of someone's nativeness. I mean people who live in Scotland are certainly natives but they speak with a distinct accent which is hard to understand even by many native speakers. On the other