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I want to ask 2 questions about pronunciation first: 1) Do Americans say /use- d / or /use- t / in used to? 2) I saw Ann Cook wrote this in American Accent course: If the first consonant is voiced, the next one will be as well. If the first one is unvoiced, the second one will sound...

Well, I usually hear it that way, and Ann Cook in American Accent training told me to do so, so I think I'll go on pronouncing them that way. I could upload the short audio examples she uses to teach the difference between those two kinds of "that", but I don't feel like it now....

I think the question for this topic was phrased wrong. You should change it to: English English VS. American English It would help you understand the answer better "american english" is such a peculiar phrase, a complete paradox in so many ways. In any case there is not much...

"You knew your brother did a bad thing, did you?" "You knew your brother did a bad thing, did you ?" Is the difference between those two an accent matter, or a pronunciation matter? Neither. The intonation is the key. You have used an intonation stress to emphasise...

SillyMe wrote: There is no need to improve an accent. Sometimes some work on pronunciation is required, but no more than that. Everyone should just make sure that he could be understood and that is enough. I've seen a lot of people who thought they were fluent in the language enough to imitate a...