The "l" of "bell" when it ends a word is kind of a "half l" when compared to the initial "l" in "love" which allows the "l" voicing to be completed by going to a vowel. Yet the

AJ Hoge's "effortless english" is a waste of money. I made the mistake of buying it for a friend who doesn't speak much English and she doesn't even use it. I don't blame her because it takes a lot of effort to learn with

So in Webster words talk, caught and bought are written as ˈtȯk, ˈkȯt, ˈbȯt but I also read in some textbooks on General American English accent that those words are also pronounced as ˈtäk ˈkät ˈbät. So I don't know what pronunciation is

I browsed lots of questions and answers here but I didn't find an answer to my question... How are these words 'talk', 'caught', 'bought' pronounced in General American English? Do you say long 'o' like it is in

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

KK is based on the A Pronouncing Dictionary of American English, which was written by John S. Kenyon & Thomas A. Knotts. So, KK stands for the last names of both of the people who wrote this dictionary. As for IPA and KK, there are only a few

Of course both those books have CD's. Without CD's those books would be worthless... Both books are especially about intonation, linking words, reduced sounds and something about pronunciation you can hardly find in books on American

I'm not aware of any differences in initial T in East Coast pronunciation compared with other varieties of American English. It should be an aspirated T, not reduced T or D. Perhaps you heard an unaspirated T. I'm puzzled about what else

Remember also that native English speakers' pronunciation varies depending on which part of the world they are from and which social group they belong to. yes, indeed. Dictionary.com has both "standard" British and American English

KK (Kenyon & Knott) is a phonetic system popular in Taiwan (and, I think, nowhere else) for representing the sounds of American English. It's very close to the IPA, anyway. Phonics is a theory & practice for teaching children