Weird problem. I'd just like to hear as many opinions as possible. I have learned a lot of stuff about pronunciation, and I like to learn as much as possible, to keep improving my English. However, I have never seriously practiced spoken English,

I'm undergoing accent neutralization training. My instructor says that when a word ends with a vowel sound and if the next word starts with a vowel sound, then I'm supposed to add an "r" in between to read that out. I'm a bit

<Where are the books that teach spoken English ? I'm a go there? What a ya doin? Ah'll see ya domorrow. > They're on there way: English Pronunciation in Use Intermediate I doubt that's really comprehensive. I think I once took a look at that

There are many different English accents spoken throughout the world. Some of them are very difficult to understand for an English learner who has been taught the Standard English. However, not only is being familiar with different accents fun,

Well, of course, pure IPA is far too powerful for a dictionary,except to distinguish dialect. A decent phonemic notation would suffice. For instance, there's an extra low back phoneme in RP that I never know when to pronounce, since it

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Interesting. I can't even think what distinction might be made ... pronounces it in "halve"). What distinction do you make, exactly? Some accents in the Eastern US have a split in the "short a" class. Vowels before certain