<Where are the books that teach spoken English ? I'm a go there? What a ya doin? Ah'll see ya domorrow. > They're on there way: English Pronunciation in Use Intermediate I doubt that's really comprehensive. I think I once took a look at that

Language teachers, could you tell us about some ways in which you are providing "learners with the tools to cope with 'real-life' communication ..."? Here in my country, they don't. And I heard it's so in most other

He talks with a mixture of southern, muttled brazilian, and what sounds like russian or dutch. Here is some examples: he says brah zeel like rhymes with eel. The american would say bruh zil like pill. Talk is drawn out and sounds like tahk, which

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.

Royal999 wrote: 1- best TTS? 2- phonetics? 3- real human sound? if yes, from where? Best TTS? I have no idea, since I'll never use one. TTS are meant for blind people, not ESL learners. Phonetics? What do you mean? If you want to know more

Thanks for the info. /r/ follows the schwa in teacher in most American accents, but not in RP, which I tend to stick to for transcriptions. Do you have an American dictionary? Phonemic and phonetic are close, but not the same thing. Phonemic

Ok, I see it's still a mess, but now I'm sick and tired of phonetic transcriptions, it's time to just listen! This is the author of American Accent T., Ann, who read the following stuff (edited file). Listen carefully. Notice that all those sounds

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