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I am very talented with accents, but I have had to accept the fact that I am getting older and the ability to imitate an accent is diminishing. I am a native speaker of standard mid-western American English (considered to be accent free in the US). I speak Spanish with several regional accents,...

It is unwise to rely on the etymology of a word to discern its meaning, or, if it has a range of meanings, to insist that the "original" meaning is somehow "more correct" . Words mean what they mean. In any discussion of the meaning of a word it is often instructive to look at...

The rule with a and an is that you use a when the word that follows it starts with a consonant sound, and you use an when the word that follows it starts with a vowel sound. You probably knew that given you used an correctly in your sentence, but I thought I'd mention that for others who may...

Hi, this is interesting, it reminds me of something I read in a book for improving pronunciation (the famous "American Accent Training"). The title of the paragraph is "Spoon or Sboon?" She (the author) say: "Say spoon. Now say sboon. Hear how they sound the same?" This is similar to your p/b...

To tell you the truth, I've never heard any foreigner (unless they learned English when they were very young, or had lived in an English speaking country for at least a decade, and had extensive, and personalized accent coaching) ever be able to pull off either an American or British accent....

Englishuser wrote: Hi everyone, Is the writer of the below paragraph a native speaker of English or not? What do you think? The Old English Period 477 - 1066 The first Englishmen were foreigners. They came from Europe and settled in a country already inhabited by another race - the Britons....

Hi everyone, Is the writer of the below paragraph a native speaker of English or not? What do you think? The Old English Period 477 - 1066 The first Englishmen were foreigners. They came from Europe and settled in a country already inhabited by another race - the Britons. And it is to these...