I just thought ealrier today that "th" and "d" in fast unclear speech must be indistinguishable, after I heard something on youtube. I'll try to find it again. (EDIT: On second thought I think that depends a lot on the

Hey! That's a little tricky. You can say CAN AS /kæn/ and kɛn as weakened, but you can pronounce the negative the same way in fast speech. all depends on the context. That's the reason you sometimes hear "I can't do it the same

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

I know, when speaking, some letters change its sounds(at the end of previous and beginning of next word), omit... Please, explain me with examples how it happens in spoken English. There's a lot to say. I don't know what exactly you are

If you are French (in exile in the Western Cape), describing a glottal stop is difficult because it is rarely ... vowel when speaking emphatically. (Its use in front of words beginning with a vowel is much more common in German.) I've just

What is the guttoral stop ? I have assumed it to be the 'g' sound some folk use to pronounce words like 'nothing' (nothing-k) Is this a regionalism or simply poor English ? If you are French (in exile in the Western Cape),

I couldn't see a glottal stop, nor even the "velaric", but could settle for alveolar(ic?). No "ic". I get more of a "cluck" sound if I move the stop backwards from the alveolae. That would be a palatal (or

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Redundancy of the week: a reporter spoke of the "official state visit" made by GWB. OED has 'state visit, a visit by a head of state to a foreign country for ceremonial rather than official purposes' so it seems a 'state