In American accents^x, Diphthongs^x

Hi,you sound like you want to imitate George Dubya, LOL Seriously, I'm going to comment on the first part, just on some features though: Belly wrote:Here is the script: The Beatles were an English group of musicians from Liverpool whose members were John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison,...

Anonymous wrote: The American pronunciation of “o” in your next example wouldn’t be found in any regional accent of British English that I can call to mind immediately, though there is considerable variation in the pronunciation of this sound – for example, in Scotland, Liverpool and the West...

It’s rather hard to work out quite what you are looking for here. Some of these features – as Marvin A was pointing out – are not specifically American English pronunciation, but the allophonic variation that occurs in connected speech. That is, the pronunciation of some sounds is influenced...

Thank you for your replies. these days I'm trying to improve my pronunciation a little (I'm reading "American Accent Training" by Ann Cook, I also have the audio files) CalifJim wrote:As for the second component, it is often some intermediate sound between ee and i (feel, bit) for /ai/ or...

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 /ai/ (as in nice, like and I), which sound is /i/ in...

Sorry, this will probably be a really long post. My mission? To dispell false notions about American English First, we do NOT say "drug" as the past tense of "drag." It's dragged! There are only three kinds of Americans who would say this: Young children who have not yet mastered the grammatical...