I struggle with giving each of my characters a unique voice and while I realize there are books and articles covering this, I don't feel like my characters have a great voice. Can anyone offer any tips or insights? It's very easy to become

When it comes to "says", in AmE you usually here . You also hear . Difference between ɛ and e: vowel height. BET, PEN got ɛ

You shouldn't really ever pronounce the as 'de/duh' in standard British English but it is a feature of some British accents, including some in London. I'd mainly associate it with a feature of certain immigrant community accents,

Hi Hohhot! I'm glad to see a Mongolian from Inner Mongolia here. I'm from the independent Mongolia. And I've been to the Inner Mongolian border city, Erenhot, en route to Beijing. I heard people speaking Inner Mongolian there and it

History of English Language-Funny or reality? In the beginning, there was an island off the coast of Europe. It had no name, for the natives had no language, only a collection of grunts and gestures that roughly translated to Hey!Gimme!, and

Is there a difference between pronouncing the bird n a me: (FALCON) with English a ccent a nd British?

1. their /v/ is weak, since they have it as an approximant, which is weaker than a fricative. In Eng, it is a fricative. Even in english, /v/ can have its approximant as an allophone: this occurs probably in phrases like "five sixty",

There is, I think, a difference between pronunciation and accent, though I am not quite sure what it is. Perhaps it is a question of degree. It is perfectly possible to pronounce words correctly but with different accents. Different accents may of

#1 No, I don't think that's true. If carried, varied, etc. sounded like "it" or even "id", it would sound more like a South African accent than a British one. The biggest difference between British and American

is there any difference between pronounciation of singular "you" and plural "you"? How can we understand when someone talking us as "you" ,is it for formal you or not ?