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Hi, I'm an American from the northwest part of the country (Washington state). Our accents by American standards are supposed to be the 'blandest.' That is, easiest to understand and closest to speaking phonetically American spelling.So I'll try to do this as close as possible...

He talks with a mixture of southern, muttled brazilian, and what sounds like russian or dutch. Here is some examples: he says brah zeel like rhymes with eel. The american would say bruh zil like pill. Talk is drawn out and sounds like tahk, which is northern accent. A "standard"...

Hi David,here you can find some stuff about American English. Vowels, consonants, lots of stuff...http://evaeaston.com/pr/home.htmlOn that website there's also a link to this page, where the states are pronounced.http://evaeaston.com/pr/states.htmlIf you need to know how to pronounce a word in...

Royal999 wrote:1- best TTS?2- phonetics?3- real human sound? if yes, from where?Best TTS? I have no idea, since I'll never use one. TTS are meant for blind people, not ESL learners.Phonetics? What do you mean? If you want to know more about pronunciation and improve it, I have to say that the...

Thanks for the info./r/ follows the schwa in teacher in most American accents, but not in RP, which I tend to stick to for transcriptions. Do you have an American dictionary?Phonemic and phonetic are close, but not the same thing. Phonemic script consists of the (roughly) 44 different sounds that...

Ok, I see it's still a mess, but now I'm sick and tired of phonetic transcriptions, it's time to just listen! This is the author of American Accent T., Ann, who read the following stuff (edited file). Listen carefully. Notice that all those sounds are more /er/ than /ɛr/. I now tend to pronounce...

Hi, yes, there are books that deal with stress, intonation, and pronunciation. I've read "American Accent Training" by Ann Cook. There's really a lot of stuff in that book (and on the 5 CDs). I haven't tried any other books anyway, so I can only tell you about that one. It treats American...

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...

Hi, I'm having trouble with diphthongs, especially those in words like nice and down. Diphthongs consists of two vowels, so we will consider the first diphthong as /ai/ (nice /nais/), and the second as /au/ (down /daun/). Let's consider /ai/ (as in nice, like and I), which sound is /i/ in...

Around a year or so back, I came across a rather intrigued survey on BBC News about "Nation's Favourite Accent". According to the survey, Scottish accent were more acceptable for holding management position, along with nation's strong penchant for "plummy" as of Hugh Grant. Sean Connery...