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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 first one is unvoiced, the second one will sound unvoiced, no...

Despite being wrong, they all make sense, since they are pronounced the same, except "then" vs "than". I've never understood that very well, but I recently noticed that "then" and "than" can actually be pronounced the same when the vowel in...

Well, I usually hear it that way, and Ann Cook in American Accent training told me to do so, so I think I'll go on pronouncing them that way. I could upload the short audio examples she uses to teach the difference between those two kinds of "that", but I don't feel like it now....

Yes, I was also going to mention that v/w confusion. I've also struggled quite a lot with that since my native language really doesn't distinguish the difference between them. Luckily, I make that mistake extremely rarely nowadays.

Hmm, sorry, I really know nothing about baseball! (or cricket) You know, there's virtually no baseball at all here (but I've seen it in American movies on TV ) As for the pad on my back, I thought it was ok as well, since I thought "pad on" was pronounced the same as "pat...

N, I didn't mean the pronunciation, I meant the meanings of the two words. One is a noun and the other a verb so how does the meaning change?

The noun, in the first sentence, has the accent on the first syllable. PRAW-gress. (American pronunciation) The verb, in the second sentence, has the accent on the second syllable. pruh-GRESS. (Also American) Did you mean pronunciation, or did you mean something else?

Is it because of my ears or is there really not much difference? Your ears. How important is the difference in the pronunciation of all these ending voiced /z/, devoice /z/ and /s/.It's very important. Well, the difference between /s/ and /z/, anyway. Maybe the devoiced /z/ is not so...

Well I found on www.m-w.comI heard the pronunciation and is almost the same, I don´t know what´s the difference between "Son" and "Sun"May be you can help me

Milky wrote: CalifJim wrote:A native tells me that it does occur in such as the second example. The native must have misunderstood the question. Does it No., and if it does, why? And is it widespread? No."gonna" has to be followed by a verb. London isn't a verb!I'm gonna London is totally...