are there any difference in pronouncing eə and e?, əʊ and oʊ? say various ( ˈ v eə .ri.əs | ˈ v e r.i.əs ) video ( ˈ vɪd.i. əʊ | ˈ vɪd.i. oʊ ) Yes. /eə/ and /e/ sound quite differently. Typically, the first one is the British English

1) T + Y = CH Can't you do it? Don't you like it? Aren't you ...? Got you. This is very much American^ Only american speakers will say things like this. Hmm, I'm pretty sure the T + Y assimilation occurs in British

The only way to hear a difference is listening to contrasting pairs, in my opinion. Minimal pairs, you know. Beat - bit fool - full etc. If you have such major problems, then maybe you could start with an accent reduction course. For American

I guess anyone can almost immediately tell that Clive is a native speaker while I am not, without even listening to the end of the voice recordings. Why is this so? Specifically, these are the "Asian speaker" giveaways: stu dents, labora

As a native English speaker, born and living in England, I'd like to confirm that both 'while' and 'whilst' are in common usage in the UK and the previous replies more than adequately describe how to use them. However, as some

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

Hi Hohhot! I'm glad to see a Mongolian from Inner Mongolia here. I'm from the independent Mongolia. And I've been to the Inner Mongolian border city, Erenhot, en route to Beijing. I heard people speaking Inner Mongolian there and it

Unfortunately it's a common problem for advanced learners. What accent should they use? I decided to learn American English because I thought British English sounded really awful. Then I found out I thought so because I only knew posh RP,

I´m an English teacher and when I´m giving class there are all these questions about pronunciation. I work with other teachers some from Ireland, London, Scotland, and Americans. Each teacher is teaching with a different accent. Then the books are

Hi Jeeza The first question you mut ask yourself is whether you want to speak British English or American English. I'm not a big fan of Hollywood, so I'll presume that you'd like to speak like an Englishman from what we term the