1. Have you ever thought about retaining some aspects of your first language Generally speaking, no, because English is a separate language. Of course it's easy to make mistakes because of the influence of my native language, but as I said, I

I want to improve my e nglish accent and reduce gram m atical mistakes in my e nglish. How can I improve my accent? Before working on improving your accent and grammatical errors, there are few suggestions you may want to consider.

Unfortunately students who take IELTS exhibit the same poor speech skills, and that already includes a speaking test (for which I'm an examiner). I gather that pronunciation is one of the criteria for marking and assessment...

BTW, is the usage of American constructions/pronunciation in British English acceptable or is it treated as a mistake? American constructions and pronunciation are no problem in Britain. And if foreigners use these nobody will really notice,

Hi All, So many students in my groups have an American pronunciation of lots of words, like basket = (baeskit). ... this American pronunciation? - correct it? - or: point out that the British pronounce a word differently + tell how? The only time

Connected speech works just fine. Most people often elide some ... red if they are elided or spoken too quickly, though. OK. But that's elision. What about assimilation? You say that the analysis is at the phoneme level. How would this cope

If you tell me the name of the program, I can tell you how PROnounce is different. Almost all the major language learning PC software titles use template-based pronunciation analysis. Such systems often score people worse for missing the exact

?? Every description I've ever read of French pronunciation for English speakers has made a point of the fact that French /t/, /d/ and /n/ are dental, unlike their alveolar English counterparts. These consonants are more advanced, but the

Agreed, if such coursebooks claim to be representing American pronunciation. They are incorrect even when representing RP. Apparently length is indeed an inherent part of vowel phonemes in several important British dialects, where /i/ ~ (i:) is in

Do you think that these pressures have (nearly) vanished from ... avoid certain phrases, or seen it happen to their children. Sure, but specifically wrt British stuff? I can only remember Britishisms, British accents, British culture, etc. being