By American English, Phonetics

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Hi stoo, welcome to Englishforums. It is difficult to explain how to make an L sound. And I also don't know what's your native language and what exactly is your problem, or what variety of English you are learning. Anyway, I tried to find some general material. I hope it helps you at...

It's a symbol for phonetic transcriptions and it represent a sound, not a letter. It's not a matter of pronouncing it differently, but a matter of using it or not. Americans use that sound in "bath" for example, but some people in the UK don't. So Americans say /bæθ/, and...

In words which have the phonetic sound / ae/ , I hear the real differences between American and British Accent. If in British they spell that phonetic sound similar to /a/, American would do with a sound like /e/, isn't it?Some words such as slang, man etc. I wonder why they use the /ae/...

Hi,when you do a P and a B, your mouth does exactly the same things (= it moves the same way). The difference is that B is the "voiced" version of P. This means that when you say "B", your throat should "vibrate", and when you say "P" your throat should not.It's the same difference that there is...

Hi David,here you can find some stuff about American English. Vowels, consonants, lots of stuff...http://evaeaston.com/pr/home.htmlOn that website there's also a link to this page, where the states are pronounced.http://evaeaston.com/pr/states.htmlIf you need to know how to pronounce a word in...

Greetings to you friendsI really have some problems in pronouncing the words K,P,T, and particularly "R".I need the phonetic guide for American English.Plus the Pronounciation list of all the 50 states of the U.S.A.(NOTE: Should i say "American" as Marican to sound perfect and similiar to a...

Hi Thorhath,it is interesting to know that 40% of the English vocabulary is from the French language, I could tell some examples: air, age, departement,...But I don't exactly know what you mean with "sound the same"? Do you mean the phonetic? If so, then I'd say, that French and English don't...

Don't feel that you're alone in having this difficulty. The difference between abstract and concrete nouns is not always easy to determine. The reason is that the distinction is over-simplified, and that it is made to seem that it is a property of the nouns themselves, whereas, in reality, it...

and an ignorant American would look at British and pronounce practise (Br. spelling) like practize.... Highly unlikely.Americans on the other hand, have been butchering it for centuries and should not be consulted when learning this language. It is, after all, English and not American.Rubbish. ...