There is, I think, a difference between pronunciation and accent, though I am not quite sure what it is. Perhaps it is a question of degree. It is perfectly possible to pronounce words correctly but with different accents. Different accents may of

I think you're right on, Kooyeen. And thanks for the reply. I am a stickler in my pronunciation classes that students learn to say the -s (and -ed) endings correctly. Even though I do this, I know that native English speaking Americans rarely

I want to ask 2 questions about pronunciation first: 1) Do Americans say /use- d / or /use- t / in used to? 2) I saw Ann Cook wrote this in American Accent course: If the first consonant is voiced, the next one will be as well. If the

Dear Dusklight, Consider your sentence "I'm the firs t t o arrive", it doesn't matter if you pronouce the word first like firs , because you will pronounce the sound /t/ of the word to. This is called "prepare and link (according to my book)." If

Hi! The gurus here are going to kill me for this, but I believe that with elementary students the important thing is to teach the really different ending sound which is /id/ . The difference between /t/ and /d/ is slight and does not impair

8. Why do you say “She is a one-eyed teacher” and not “ She’s an one eyed teacher”? (Focus on a phonetic explanation) The article an is used before vowel sounds, not vowel letters. The word one is pronounced wun . The w is not a vowel sound even

Ricky, The English speaker hears the difference between 'b' and 'p' as the difference between a voiced and an unvoiced consonant. The Chinese speaker hears the difference between 'b' and 'p' as the difference between an unaspirated and an

The /t/ in question (between /n/ and /s/) is but one of many "sycophant consonants" which occur naturally because of the way we must make transitions between consonants with certain movements of mouth, tongue, lips, etc. Dictionaries usually

Hi cball007, I found my notes which I jotted down in my ESL course. The difference between a and an is one of pronunciation, and so we also use an in front of a silent h because judging only by sound, the word begins with the vowel that