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

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

Don Myers wrote on 20 Nov 2004: Teachers tell students to practice reading. Students then run across many words they've never heard pronounced. As they see the ... quickly pick out the word in a list be helpful even though there is no meaning

rewboss infrared: In American English there are fairly significant differences among different accents in how /&/ and /E/ are pronounced. And for many foreign students (Germans certainly) the difference is infinitesimal. In a long-ago thread

As a native Spanish speaker I have a hard time to distinguish the difference between the vowels in * cut * cot * caught Are there any clues on how should I shape my mouth/lips/tongue/vocal chords/whatever to pronounce these vowels correctly? Hola

Anachronism, pronunciationwise. For obvious reasons, I've never heard an ancient Roman speaking Latin. Ican only imagine how the Latin should sound, i.e. ... sounds different from French - Latin, or American-Latin, or Russian-Latin. The same

Whilst agreeing with all the above, "Ms" has a pronunciation ... quite angry when addressed, by voice or letter, as "Ms". Are those women, by any chance, over the age of, oh, 75? I'm trying hard to think of anyone I ...

The facts 1. The QWERT 101/103 keyboard layout has dominated the world and peoples of all native languages have got ... German, French, Spanish words have been borrowed into English, but that's not true for East Asian words (Chinese, Japanese,