Of course both those books have CD's. Without CD's those books would be worthless... Both books are especially about intonation, linking words, reduced sounds and something about pronunciation you can hardly find in books on American

There are phonetic and structural differences between Indian accents and American or British ones. The way Indians join words, the intonation patterns and weak/strong forms are all different. Phonetically Indians do not use long sounds or

hmm, the problem is that your native phonology is acting as filter. Work with some accent reduction coach first; after that, try to grasp the phology of spoken American English. Work on stress, rhythm, connected speech and intonation.

Yes Avangi, there are a great many differences between the two. They even use searate dictionaries; Oxford English & Websters American Dictionaries. Some of the most common differences are tap/faucet, pavement/sidewalk & the boot of

Hi Kooyeen, I think I know what you mean and I am also interested in the answer. Are you referring to the staircase intonation mentioned in Ann Cook's AAT? My mother tongue is a tonal langauge (a different tone stands for a different word) and

Raf, your question is kind of strange, given the fact that many educated Britons do not even pronounce the "r" in "world." However, I've heard a lot of people ask the same question. The biggest problem is that the /r/ sound

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There has been much discussion in Usenet of the peculiarity ... of a declarative statement, making it sound like a question. I'll give you a U.S.A. California perspective circa 1970-1971. It's not originally a Valley-girl thing. After I

There has been much discussion in Usenet of the peculiarity of speech shown by some younger people wherein they have a rising intonation at the end of a declarative statement, making it sound like a question. Bob Cunningham's thread lasted