V is a labio-dental fricative: lower lip + upper teeth + create a small channel between these two + hiss + add voice W is a bi-labial sound: lips and teeth dont touch. Youtube is your friend for more on how to produce these sounds.

Guys! Enough of arguing how to get rid of accent :p now let's talk about how to be able to speak english with an accent :p So, what are you waiting for?! START POSTING NOW! :p lol If one can 'systematically' learn to rid of accent,

What's your point? I made an implicit point: it is not cognitively productive to remember pronounciation for every word. What learners should be taught: a set of heuristics to find possible pronunciations for a word. Mastery of phonetics (or

I think the only reason you can't learn like babies do is because you don't have the time... I believe there's nothing more artificial than learning a language, no matter at what age. I'm also learning English as a second (or

Pullum uses the word "lack" here. Is he right in doing so? " Standard English lacks multiple negation marking, but has syllable-final consonant clusters and interdental fricative consonants."

Actually, the insertion of "yet" in "there have to be" breaks up the verb phrase so that "have" changes from an auxiliary to a principal verb, with the infinitive "to be" changing from a principal verb to

except add, ebb, inn These are one-syllable content words that begin with a vowel. I think that, psychologically perhaps, we like content words (nouns, verbs, etc., rather than determiners, prepositions, and conjunctions) to have at least three

1. their /v/ is weak, since they have it as an approximant, which is weaker than a fricative. In Eng, it is a fricative. Even in english, /v/ can have its approximant as an allophone: this occurs probably in phrases like "five sixty",

There is a difference between a plosive (stop) consonant and a fricative. In english, "th" in thin is a fricative. However, people from Indian subcontinent pronounce it as a stop consonant, because that's what their native languages

Chuck wrote on Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:49:34 +00: Not to me it doesn't. "Yous", pronounced "youz", is clearly ... with the language could mispronounce "yous", seeing it in print. I thought the 2nd person plural