AJ Hoge's "effortless english" is a waste of money. I made the mistake of buying it for a friend who doesn't speak much English and she doesn't even use it. I don't blame her because it takes a lot of effort to learn with

If you think "opporchunity" is hard to imagine, try "prositchution." I think the reason we American English speakers are so befuddled by this is that's it's easy to imagine why a dialect would adopt a variation of (what

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,

I wouldn't necessarily recommend someone learning English to learn a regional accent at all - not even south-eastern or estuary English (and that's not because I am from Newcastle, and biased (although I am from Newcastle!). People from

I wanted to mention that, that some people axe questions. It's a feature of some dialects (for example it's found in African American English). Merriam-Webster lists that pronunciation, saying it's dialectal.

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

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

Thethenothere123 wrote: I feel as though the AmE vs. BrE distinction is largely exaggerated by non-native English speakers. Like a previous poster commented, your focus should be on using proper grammar and working to improve your pronunciation

Hwat for what is the original pronunciation and was the only form used in Middle English. In Modern English, many dialects lost the wine-whine distinction, and began pronouncing words spelled "wh" as simply "w", rather thn "hw". The original,

Hi, Kooyeen, Kooyeen wrote: I know you won't like my answer, but... what's wrong? That part of speech was ok. My goal is to talk like that. Ok, not really like that, but that was not "non-English", so it was ok in the end (I guess). I