Hi Sachin, I know what you mean about not understanding people at a high speed. It happens in every language, and can be frustrating. The best thing to do (as you probably already know) is to work on your listening skills (lots of practice) and

I'm a high school junior, so i'll be talking from classroom experiences.  I'm in regular english and have completed 3 years of spanish. No English is not a phonetic language.  Languages like Italian and Spanish have only one way of

There is "talk" about my doing an adaptation from a book. Apart from the obvious issues about moving from one ... so I can't pass the buck in that direction. Or do I just say, "I dunno, ask the director"? M Well you

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

Your attribution of quotes in the present tense is ungrammatical in written BrE. Are 60 million speakers anomalous? Not important to you, maybe. Not important to anyone outside Smallville. After you've heard thousands of people from all over

Not important to you, maybe. Not important to anyone outside Smallville. After you've heard thousands of people from all over the world speaking English, the barely discernable differences in pronunciation between Ashport and Likspittle just

"'Plosive' is a relative term" means that there's no reason ... one time to another over a continuous range of values. It can't do that because if consonants were that loosely defined they'd be indistinguishable. It

Shouder isn't a word. I think he means that his pronunciation of shoulder sounds like 'shouder'. He's 'dropping' his 'L's Orientals have problems with the letters L and R. The Japanese saying lolapalooza as

But the whole point is that this is not an "English" name, It's the name of an English-speaking person, used by that person of himself when speaking English; what more do you want? Names of non-English origin are treated in various

} At the AUE site, there's a page headed "Pronunciation of } newsgroup contributors' names". The URL is } http://www.alt-usage-english.org/audio gallery/index.html } } When you click on "WAV" or "MP3" by my