There is a distinct difference between /k/ and /kw/ to a native speaker. I know several people from Pakistan and from India, and I've never noticed a difficulty on their part to pronounce them differently.

I was recently engaged in a discussion with a Bulgarian english teacher on Skype. I was telling him that I was good IN pronunciation and he immediately corrected me with "good AT". I was puzzled by this, so I googled about it. So I found

I don't know much about english pronunciation, but I do know a lot about Italian because I've studied it for many years, and that language is not so different than Spanish ( my native language)...so with that said, I wanted to make clear

Hi Wein I am a native english speaker and everybody i know pronounced 'space' as something similar to 'sbace'. If it try to make the 'p' voiceless it does not flow properly and it sounds very strange. So i have to say

#1 No, I don't think that's true. If carried, varied, etc. sounded like "it" or even "id", it would sound more like a South African accent than a British one. The biggest difference between British and American

I speak English, Swedish and Finnish. The last one is the most difficult for me without any doubt. But it depends on what makes the language in question difficult to different people. For me, Finnish is tough because of its vocabulary that doesn´t

That's not true, but not for the reasons others have ... letters didn't all sound alike, as you said they would. BTW, I wwasn't talking about silent letters. When I try to say the alphabet without moving my lips or tongue, there are no

I don't have any >> formal ESL training or certification, but I do tutor some >>foreign >> students in English ... >>> my speech. I'm not in the business of telling them I'm right and >>> they're

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As someone living in Northern Ireland, the most accurate comment ... over the centuries by migrants from England, Scotland, and Wales. However, there are identifiable features which are common in speech across Northern Ireland. Those of us with