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

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

<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

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),

It seems that an aspirate has the air flowing *while* the consonant is being pronounced, without there necessarily even being a closure that's released. No, an aspirate consonant has a distinct sound of escaping air before the following