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Just wondering what do you consider as the hardest word/expression to pronounce. I am particularly having problems with the following: 'Sheet/***' I always mess up these two and end up making joke of myself. Sometime I meant to say 'a sheet of paper', but to my friends it was like '*** of...

I can slip into a southern accent (U.S.) at a moment's notice and stay there. But my father is from the south and his speech patterns are latent in me. I can do a couple British accents to tell a joke that has a British speaker as part of the joke, but any native Brit would know it was a fake...

I've got a proplem and that's why I feel depressed.It started when I was in kindergarten during which my love for English started.My teachers taught me using the British accent and I think that now (23 yars old) I'm good at English.I even took a cource in the British Council here in Saudi Arabia....

yeah water is one of the more difficult words to say with an american accent because the brits say it as "war ter" the americans... i think its "wha tuh" there arent many british sounds like that, its like the russians they use lots of sounds that just dont exist in english as do the chinese...

A couple of points. 1) I have a suggestion as to the reason why people from the u.s. think they have an enormous variety of accents, but no-one else does. This could be due to the typical u.s. insular, isolationist attitude which means they are often ignorant of the outside world in a number...

Dear CalifJim, Thanks for the comment. Casi and some of the friends here reminded us that of some communities that would learn the British accent easier than the American. Actually, it depends on their first language to feel more comfortable with one of these, rather than the other. For example,...