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

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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

Donna Richoux typed thus: Only one? Many of us have encountered the pen/pin merger. ... say "pawn" and "porn" the same way. Educated British people. That'll be me. Guilty on all three counts. Also "shaw" and

But how come two different tutors said the same thing. They do not know each other. They both have the misfortune of being incorrect. Some incorrect beliefs are widespead. They told me in my pronunciation there is no difference between