What do you mean? There are allophones of /t/, yes... At the end of a word (if nothing follows), /t/ can be pronounced in three different ways, as far as I know: 1) Released: you can hear the /t/, which is sometimes aspirated to some extent 2)

<Where are the books that teach spoken English ? I'm a go there? What a ya doin? Ah'll see ya domorrow. > They're on there way: English Pronunciation in Use Intermediate I doubt that's really comprehensive. I think I once took a look at that

Language teachers, could you tell us about some ways in which you are providing "learners with the tools to cope with 'real-life' communication ..."? Here in my country, they don't. And I heard it's so in most other

Hmm, can I answer even though I am not a native speaker? I would say "thee eagle" because I learned to pronounce it "thee" before vowel sounds. Words like "university" and "wall" don't really start with

Bldudas: thanks so much. I'll def. check them out. I've been staying up all night browsing the web for sites that can help me. You cannot recognise US accents? Where are the people from you hear? You should be able to recognise New York and

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

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

Ville_maddengurl wrote: i want to give American accent up and learn English accent to talk more intelligible...is it OK now, MrP ..? I'm sorry, VM, you're going to have to speak much more slowly. In fragments. Without verbs. And say

Hard to pin it all down exactly. It's just generally 'off'. However, some specificic points are that all the 'i's sound Australian rather than cockney. the th should sound like v. Wiv not with. The 't's are not right either - he can't do the