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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 unvoiced, no...

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...

Hi again,I'm so sorry, I should have read CalifJim's post about T's a little more carefully before posting. I see that there's also a glottal stop after R's, so the t in "smart" or "cart" is held. I see that there's a glottal stop (but sometimes it's not complete) after L and N, for example in...

I've heard British singers who tap their t's, pronounce the o's in "not, god, etc." like the "a" in "car", ect. Is that because they want to imitate an American Accent, then? Robbie Williams sings that way, he's British, so what kind of British accent does he have?All singers sort of lose their...

Hi, this is interesting, it reminds me of something I read in a book for improving pronunciation (the famous "American Accent Training"). The title of the paragraph is "Spoon or Sboon?" She (the author) say: "Say spoon. Now say sboon. Hear how they sound the same?" This is similar to your p/b...

To tell you the truth, I've never heard any foreigner (unless they learned English when they were very young, or had lived in an English speaking country for at least a decade, and had extensive, and personalized accent coaching) ever be able to pull off either an American or British accent....

I think the problem with his Standard American Accent is two fold- one, his native accent sneaks through a few times in the consonants as a few have pointed out. Secondly, and I think this is the deal breaker, he has some problems with stress and intonation. Part of the problem is he's...

In graduate school, my husband-to-be had a Japanese roommate. One rainy morning he awoke to find a note that "Ken - I have taken your umblerra." I think native English speakers (at least Americans) who are not linguists tend to find this funny, not only because of resulting word exchanges...

I'm a native of Brooklyn who is currently in California. I've been told that I have an educated, sort of upper-class Roosevelt-esque accent. But my vowel in "hot" is very open, broad, and hard-sounding as opposed to slightly closed upper-class one. I am not fond of the mainstream American...

No offense Trevor, but your post comes off a bit insular, isolationist and ignorant. Why the heck would an American's inability to distinguish between British and Australian accents mean they have a different idea of what constitutes an accent? If anything, that should suggest that American's...