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

Ok, lol... then... I don't know if I understand your problem, but you are right, transcriptions in dictionaries are not accurate. But I don't know what to say, because it varies from dictionary to dictionary...I'll just give you a few

syllable Segment of speech usually consisting of a vowel with or without accompanying consonant sounds (e.g., a , I , out , too , cap , snap , check ). A syllabic consonant, like the final n sound in button and widen , also constitutes a syllable.

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

The conventional teaching is that the vowels are AEIOU and sometimes Y. Y is a consonant in Yet and Yoghurt. It is a vowel in City and Candy. W is a consonant in Woman and Wine. W is part of a diphthong in words like PAWN, FAWN, FOWL, FEW My ESL

In article But the collapsed diphthong - in which a diphthong is formed to provide minimal phonetic cues to a longer word ... reliable acculturated BBC anchor or links man would be expected to know off pat and deliver without missing a beat. So

I remember at school there was a combined volume of "Billy Liar" and "The Loneliness of The Long Distance Runner" ubiquitous to the "English Rooms". I thought the latter to be the better story, better written; but

As per phonetics theory, I've been told one should use the indefinite article "a" before words beginning with a consonant and "an" before words beginning with a vowel or a diphthong. And the sound "y" ( or / j /

Hey CB, how about ? Seven, , , ten. Hi Jackson, vowel letters are A, E, I, O, U. Vowel sounds are all those sounds you use while speaking that are not consonants. The most common vowel sound in English is the schwa (IPA symbol: /ə/). IPA is the

diphthong: (phonetics) a combination of two vowel sounds or vowel letters monophthong: a speech sound that consists of only one vowel sound triphthong: a combination of three vowel sounds or vowel letters The above definitions use the expressions