By Conversations, American accents

"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 those...

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...

Cvilla wrote:Believe it or not, accents play an important role in the social environment. In the Spanish speaking world, colombian people may have a hard time understanding us costaricans because of the way most of us pronounce the "r" and because of the accent itself. To us, some colombian...

Believe it or not, accents play an important role in the social environment. In the Spanish speaking world, colombian people may have a hard time understanding us costaricans because of the way most of us pronounce the "r" and because of the accent itself. To us, some colombian accents are just...

Hi,would you notice the difference between the answers in this conversation?- Can I move my home path to another partition without formatting?- I think you can. / I think you can't.I can distinguish between can and can't when can is not stressed (so it's "kun"), but I think there's no way to...

Well this conversation is ancient, but maybe you get a tickler when someone replies adn will find this. The guy's accent is crap. I'm Canadian but I'm from Toronto where our accent is *almost* standard American (or what we called in the film business Mid-west Flat) and I can tell you a few...

Hi there, I am a non-native English learner. I often visit Randall's ESL Listening Cyber Lab http://www.esl-lab.com/ to practise listening and speaking skills. I find this website very useful in learning to new American English expressions. Can you suggest any similar websites but in British...

I agree with the advice people gave you so far. Don't worry about not living in the US, I didn't either and I didn't have major problems getting an American accent. Just be patient and allow yourself enough time to change your speaking patterns. Losing an accent is not something you'll be...

Hi all. I really don't know how I got to this webpage so please forgive me I'm a simple Slovak guy who have lived in Ireland and Northern Ireland. To be honest, I fell in love with those accents. The Cork's accent is my favourite 'cause I spend the longest time over there. I visited Belfast...

Hi Fenerbahceli During your TOEFL exam, you are given only ONE chance to listen to a conversation. Whether you grasp the conversation or not, you will have to answer the question which comes in the next screen. If you're doing the TOEFL CBT (Computer based test), it is important that you get the...