Let's listen to the pronunciation of the letter "t" for these words in thefreedictionary.com Click on the flags to hear USA and UK accents. My phonetic notation is in truespel marked with ~ elevator - "t" sounds

<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

Jim, I hadn't thought of that, but I think I have never noticed it. I definitely pronounce words like "mountain" or "sentence" with a glottal stop in the combination "TN" and I don't include a schwa in

On second thought, I think I once read somewhere that "I've" is used that way in the UK sometimes, maybe for possession. But since I am not sure, it might be very rare,I have never actually "heard" it, and I have probably

CJ is right, the only way to know for sure is to ask someone you trust. I introduce all of my students to the Merriam Webster online dictionary for pronunciation because I have found them to have the best searchable audio clips, and they speak as

Do you know which accent is chosen by MW as the reference in the pronunciation keys. Is it General American? No idea. The audio files comes from several different speakers, but I think I've always heard "accentless" pronunciations

Anonymous wrote: It really bugs me the way Americans say a 'British' accent because more than one country makes up Britain, there is England, Scotland, and Wales, all of which have very different accents. Then of course all three countries have

1. Flapping When you pronouncing "it was" in casual, connected speech, could it be sounded like "idwas" or "irwas"? No. Like "water" as "warer", or "fatty" as "fady". 2. Glottalization In the same situation, can glottalization

What it comes to flapping, it is prevalent in AE pronunciation. Therefore, 'writer' might sound like 'wider' etc. At least, this is how I have understood it. I'm not sure about that glottalisation either. Hypothetically, I guess one could say that