Hi, Thank you both. I asked this because I thought the aswer to it would be pretty straightforward. But, as it turns out, it is slightly more complicated. Good information though. Why I want to know this? Partly because I find it interesting, but

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

Instead of worrying about perceptions (auditory phonetics), try to produce variations (articulatory phonetics): how to produce a fronted /u:/ ? That seems a very good idea. I think I might try to change from one vowel to the other by

Instead of worrying about perceptions (auditory phonetics), try to produce variations (articulatory phonetics): how to produce a fronted /u:/ ? You have to formulate your worries into a set of problems, and then attack systematically. This is

Focus on the variation of vowels in various accents: phonetic differences. Sometimes, you can see phonemic differences as is the case between BrE and AmE. Most of the transcriptions are broad, like the ones we see in dictionaries. Mastering

Hi, I might be mistaken because I'm not really into phonetics, but I don't think it's useful to look into an accent by analyzing the way one sings. If you want to listen to Welsh accents (or to accents from various parts of the UK),

I've been away from this forum for a while, and meantime I've enrolled for a five-year (gulp!) degree in English (which includes grammar, literature, linguistics, and so on) at a distance university. Right now I'm starting to delve

well the English D and T sound like a Spanish R (not double R but just R) - the Spanish J sounds like a English H - the Spanish L and English L don't sound alike (they are different sounds), and the same happened with the Spanish and English T

I don't use that website either because it seems to pronounce words with an annoying posh accent, and there are no phonetic transcriptions. I just need the transcription because I already have my way of pronouncing each phoneme, so I usually

I think the only reason you can't learn like babies do is because you don't have the time... I believe there's nothing more artificial than learning a language, no matter at what age. I'm also learning English as a second (or