I don't recommend that site for any one. It is full of crap when it comes to AmE. Use either M-W and reference.com dude in AmE = 'dud Notice the yod-dropping, that is, no /j/ (in IPA) after alveolar consonants. What do you mean? I

I don't know of a webpage that drills these ideas, but here is some written material that may help. There are, in American English, five types of verb with regard to the pronunciation of the regular past tense. (The spelling rules are

As a learner of the Polish language I've come to accept that all consonant combinations are possible with enough practice. Ksenofobia is the Polish word for Xenophobia, pronounced exactly as it would be in English if a word-initial

Anonymous wrote: >> Only one exception, after (the attachment was from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary) after the sounds OK: /fd/ the sounds like /ft/ << Nope. There is no difference where it comes to the

Raymond S. Wise infrared: In modern French, "suis": "Je suis né en France," literally "I am born in France," is more correctly translated as "I was born in France." You could also use the passé simple and

ending in 'ff'. The final 'v' in a Russian surname is never voiced; its actual pronunciation is 'f.' This devoicing of final consonants in all or most Slavonic languages (also in German) was precisely why I queried the

Yes, as I said above, this is to be expected where the vowel is followed by a fortis ("unvoiced") consonant ... to have (o), but it's the only word I can think of containing /@US/, unless we want to count "oshit!" For me

In any case, is Ruud van Nistelroy not a striker ... Letters aren't just individuals: they play in teams, like footballers. Is there anyone who doesn't pronounce the first 'g' in Ryan Giggs? I doubt it. The /g/ is required because

{d} is defined by the International Phonetic Association to be a voiced alveolar plosive. (See http://www2.arts.gla.ac.uk/IPA/pulmonic.html .) Now "plosive" is ... sound, it's so small as to be hardly noticeable, and it seems

/eIdZ/ There's only one syllable; you must mean the final ... countless other English words: judge, edge, jail, June, major, etc. Thanks for replying, I am according with you but, Then is wrong to pronounce the final segment as the first sound