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

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,

I am in New York City and almost all accent ... "accent reduction" into your search engine. Good luck, Steve Bo What is there in Netmon's posting that makes you think his or her student wants to acquire an American accent? DC When

Hi All, So many students in my groups have an American pronunciation of lots of words, like basket = (baeskit). ... this American pronunciation? - correct it? - or: point out that the British pronounce a word differently + tell how? Since

Never thought of that; I don't hear anything in South ... way I don't hear Britishness in a S Asian accent? Right; I think a typical native Californian English speaker would say that a typical Philippino English speaker has a very soft

OK. But that's elision. What about assimilation? You say that ... would this cope with, say, "used to" or "has to"? You mean, pronounced "usedta" and "hasta"? No, for "used to", I mean

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

On 21-Aug-2004, Mxsmanic (Email Removed) wrote in message (Email Removed): ?? Every description I've ever read of French pronunciation for ... /d/ and /n/ are dental, unlike their alveolar English counterparts. These consonants are more

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