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I want to ask 2 questions about pronunciation first: 1) Do Americans say /use-d/ or /use-t/ in used to? 2) I saw Ann Cook wrote this in American Accent course: If the first consonant is voiced, the next one will be as well. If the first one is unvoiced, the second one will sound unvoiced, no...

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 "that", but I don't feel like it now....

In the same way that I (and many others) cannot tell the difference between American and Canadian accents. I know it drives the Canadians bonkers! It is obvious when you are local to that part of the world but difficult for others. I also cannot tell the difference between Australian and New...

The noun, in the first sentence, has the accent on the first syllable. PRAW-gress. (American pronunciation) The verb, in the second sentence, has the accent on the second syllable. pruh-GRESS. (Also American) Did you mean pronunciation, or did you mean something else?

Scottish accents are nice, but Glasgow accents are horrific!!! I personaly blame Glasgow for other countries mocking the Scottish accent. All of Scotlands popular media has come from Glasgow so people in other countries come to recognise the Glasgow accent as being the Scottish accent, which of...

Hi, those two vowels are the same to me. The only difference between "how's" and "house" is the final consonant. I think this is true for both General American and the kind of British English that is usually learned. I don't know if there are people who make a distinction or situations where a...

Well, you are supposed to write about the *new* trends in Canadian English. Not the history of CE. I think that the Canadian Shift would probably be your best bet--it is a very recent innovation, and thus is one of the few features of CE that could be considered new. It also has many...

Dear Dusklight,Consider your sentence "I'm the first to arrive", it doesn't matter if you pronouce the word first like firs, because you will pronounce the sound /t/ of the word to. This is called "prepare and link (according to my book)." If the final consonant sound of a word has the same...

Hi,they are very different. Can't you hear the difference between these two? Click on them:/ae/ => /caet/ --- CAT/a:/ => /ca:t/ --- COTYou can check this out too: American VowelsThat comes from this webpage http://www.americanaccent.com/pronunciation.html , which talks about some important...

The reason that we, Americans, can not hear the difference between an English accent and an Australian accent is because we are from the US! It is that simple... And just as recent post stated, you probably would't hear the difference between an accent from Northern California, Southern...