By Phonetics, Vowels

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 dictionary.Familiarize yourself with the phonetic...

Thankk you, anon.Question 1: Doesn't English also spell its words phonetically?Question 2: Which of the following sentences is correct? If both are correct, then what is the difference in meaning?1: Doesn't English also spell its words phonetically?2: Doesn't English also pronounce...

Actually guys Italian like Spanish spells its' words phonetically. Scorsaysee is more or less and American Italian invention its' not how the word should be pronounced. Scor -se -se is actually the true prounciation of this LATIN word. In latin the e is never pronouced like the english...

I am glad we agree about the sound /w/.That leaves us with the letter <w>.Letters of the alphabet must not be confused with sounds. By convention and for convenience, letters that represent vowel sounds are called vowels and letters that represent consonant sounds are called consonants. (In...

your example forgets that dipthongs are made up of multiple sounds together. The dipthongs /ow/ and /oa/ have the same sound when used in the words you provide as examples, but that doesn't mean that you can isolate half of each dipthong and then show that they the letters obviously...

When you say that /w/ does not behave as a vowel you are in a sense correct. It does not behave like a "full" vowel in that it can never form the nucleus of a syllable. However, although it does not behave like a vowel it is formed liked a vowel. It is sometimes described as a...

I was wondering what is the rule for the spelling of words that contain double consonants?For example:Do I spell the word "recommended" with two Ms or just one? (I am aware that its one M, but why?).Most of the time you can sound out a word to figure out a repeated consonant or vowel or...

I do not think it necessarily is.If we start with a definition that a vowel is a sound articulated without any obstruction of the vocal tract and that a consonant is a sound that is articulated with an obstruction, then we do not have any difficulty deciding that /a/ is a vowel and /k/ is a...

Native speaker here, asking for perceptions of other native speakers, especially those who have a basic knowledge of linguistics.Of course, I know the rule about pronouncing 'the' as 'thee' before vowel sounds: thee afternoon, thee apple, thee orange, thee hour. However, how...

Hi,the American Pronunciation you found is ok, and Merriam-Webster is the best (in my opinion) to check American pronunciations. The thing is you have to learn how to read phonetic transcriptions in the dictionaries you use, because often every dictionary uses its own conventions. Also,...