Hi and welcome to Englishforums! It's " a unique ... " because " u " here represents a consonant sound. The same goes --for instance -- with " a university " and " a user ". However, " u "

I don't know why you would pronunce the last one like a 'z', may be because for native english speakers is natural to say it tha way, but as an Italian student i have to say that there is no difference between those two 's'.

If you look in a dictionary: the 1 play_w2("T0146800") ( before a vowel; before a consonant ) Or, "thee" before a vowel and "thuh" before a consonant. It's not a rule we learn in school, but it's

How does university have a consonant sound at the beginning? U is a vowel and it makes a vowel sound when spoken. Surely it would be better to say there is no real rule that denotres the usage of these a's and an's. University

How does university have a consonant sound at the beginning? U is a vowel and it makes a vowel sound when spoken. Surely it would be better to say there is no real rule that denotres the usage of these a's and an's.

A goes before CONSONANT sounds whereas AN goes before VOWEL sounds, this is pretty plain to see. And it also makes easier joining the words as we speak. i.e a unique, a uniform, a university, a universal problem, a unilateral agreement, a united

among and amongst are both use when talking about anything refering to more then 2...now the confusing thing is when to use among and amongst :- lemme tell u : among is use when the word that comes next is starting with a consonant letter..eg:

As per phonetics theory, I've been told one should use the indefinite article "a" before words beginning with a consonant and "an" before words beginning with a vowel or a diphthong. And the sound "y" ( or / j /

U¿ytkownik (Email Removed) napisa³ w wiadomo¶ci student confuses the spelling for the number 2 (two) with the preposition (to). Homonyms give even native speakers a headache. From my experience as a learner of Russian as compulsory

I have a number of Chinese students, who have great difficulties pronouncing some phonemes such as the consonant "r" . ... creatively but cannot roll their "r"s. . Are there some L2 phonemes impossible to learn by certain L1