Guys! Enough of arguing how to get rid of accent :p now let's talk about how to be able to speak english with an accent :p So, what are you waiting for?! START POSTING NOW! :p lol If one can 'systematically' learn to rid of accent,

What's your point? I made an implicit point: it is not cognitively productive to remember pronounciation for every word. What learners should be taught: a set of heuristics to find possible pronunciations for a word. Mastery of phonetics (or

1. their /v/ is weak, since they have it as an approximant, which is weaker than a fricative. In Eng, it is a fricative. Even in english, /v/ can have its approximant as an allophone: this occurs probably in phrases like "five sixty",

There is, I think, a difference between pronunciation and accent, though I am not quite sure what it is. Perhaps it is a question of degree. It is perfectly possible to pronounce words correctly but with different accents. Different accents may 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

You need to learn to speak from scratch, as if you were a child. That means you should start to learn the vowels and the consonants, then put them together to create phonemes, then connect them to form words, then learn to join words and say short

Samuraifingers: I'm sorry if I made it seem like I was expecting a professional assessment of my pronunciation. I am really only looking for brief comments such as "this or that vowel has the wrong quality" or "too much

Frequently listen to English spoken by native speakers and repeat them. Watch English movies, listen to music, audio clips, BBC news and presentations. Control your rate of speech to get the correct intonation and rhythm of English. Use your

Learner100 wrote: I know that the vowel in the word bet is shorter than the one in bed. Is this true even when the voiceless t is changed to a tapped (voiced) t ? ' bet or check' vs. ' bed or chair'. Well, it's the same probem as before. Bet or

Eagerlearner wrote: I need to analyse this precisely, because it's for a software program project. Thank you. I don't want to disappoint you... but I really do NOT believe machines can understand human languages. They are too complicated.