By Dialects, Glottals

Listen for a glottal stop at the end of "can't". It'll basically sound like the <n> got cut off, rather than completed as a sound. In most American dialects, "can't" is pronounced with the stop when in it's followed by more information: "You can't do that." It's pronounced with an...

CalifJim wrote: You realize, I'm sure, that the g in final ng is silent. It is only a marker to change the usual sound of 'n' to a velar nasal sound instead. It's farther back than your Italian gn but in the same general family of sounds. I know, it thought it was like the N in "anche"...

Hi,do you native speakers always understand what people say on TV, on the radio, in movies, in songs, etc.???In Italian, unless people start to talk in a regional dialect (not accent, I said "dialect"), I think I always understand what they say on TV, radio, etc., if I listen carefully.But... it...

The following constucted dialect will give you what will sound like a Cockney accent to North Americans. All you have to do is change how you pronounce certain things differently and you will sound like a Cockney. The goal is to intruduce as many pronunciation differences as possible, to make...

I think that there are two issues being confused here with 'standard' English. Standard English with regards to grammar and so on, and a standard English accent. We may speak a regional (non-standard) English accent (this is what the only 12-15% figure is talking about) but most people still use...

The glottal stop is common in NAE.Here are some examples: ?=glottal stopbutton and a few other exceptions). Instead, an alveolar flap is used. /d/ also is pronounced as a flap, so "writer" and "rider" are distinguished by the vowel sound only, and not the consonant, except in dialects that...

Some things to keep in mind:? = glottal stop@ = əI don't know what your dialect sounds like, but I can tell you how mine differs from others:-Notice that I use lots of glottal stops (the ?). If your dialect pronounces them as "t's", then replace all the ?'s with in most other dialects--but then...

1. Here it is. 2. Here comes X. Although the /r/ is pronounced in #1, in BrE, it's very light: not at all as strong as the /r/ in "rats", for instance, or the AmE pronunciation of "here". Additionally, this would probably only apply to standard southern English: in some forms of Estuary...

Your speaking abilities surprised me as well. They are very comprehensible and I could understand you very well. You do have an accent, but accents are hard to get rid of, and as long as your pronunciation is fine, accents don't matter. My suggestions would be to: 1. Break up a few words...

Hi Bluealbatross, I live near Newcastle, and answered your similar question in the thread entitled: "Received pronunciation and mid Atlantic English" ...but I've pasted it here in case anyone wants to continue on this thread: I don't think I'd recommend learning the Newcastle accent if you...