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,

According to me Voice chat is more important.. to practice English speaking... so i have created a voice chat room.. with the help of skype... and i feel happy to tell u that within period of 20 days there are around 81 members ( 37 as a chatting

Sorry to contradict you, but that is exactly what is happening in the USA today. Speakers of other Standard variants and indeed taking classes in using Standard American English. The question is, why don't Standard American English speakers, want

Anonymous wrote: The American pronunciation of “o” in your next example wouldn’t be found in any regional accent of British English that I can call to mind immediately, though there is considerable variation in the pronunciation of this sound

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

Lcchang wrote: Dear teachers, When native speakers say " can " or " can't ", they sometimes speak so fast that I can't make sure if they mean can or cannot , especially in the movies. I know we can know better by understanding the context

Hello there! I just discovered the forum and thought I'd join the discussion thread. One of my big pasttimes is imitating accents (other than my own of course). I'm just an American from Central NJ with a good ear. I think the American

Hi Faintest Scent, I'm from HK, so I think I understand where you're coming from. Until 1997, a British accent was deemed highly desirable in HK (Pygmalion syndrome). My parents made me listen to a bunch of British audio tapes. (The rain

Connected speech works just fine. Most people often elide some ... red if they are elided or spoken too quickly, though. OK. But that's elision. What about assimilation? You say that the analysis is at the phoneme level. How would this cope

Thanks for your comments, Maybe the sound I hear is what you say. By an amazing coincidence, this very subject just came up in a thread over in alt.usage.english. It turns out that apparently some British accents do have = /tSraI/. See: It is very