instruction. >>I don't have any >> formal ESL training or ... as something they could reference while working on their pronunciation. Well, looking up EIL or Jennifer Jenkins on Google Scholar could set you in the right direction.

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

As I've said before, and as you can gather from American usage guides, the word "use" with the sense "make ... is fully conjugable, although some of its tenses are for the time being not used in today's English. In the same

I have encountered the pronunciation "Walla!" for "Voilà!" before, andfound it to be puzzling. Now, reading this thread, the light ... "(pneumatic) tire" ) and the /sts/ combination at the beginning of the Esperanto

Hi, Being a non native speaker, I'd like to know how native English read to learn, in particular how to deal with English spelling (also, how do they learn to write) If you're interested in the whole sorry history of educational fads

What about "spa" and "starry"? (The question was addressed to me, I think, and asking what vowels I use.) In 'starry' I use /A/; I'll have to catch myself saying "spa" naturally some time and let you know.

Do you know roughly when this sound change is supposed to have happened? Not off the top of my head, but my guess is early post-Shakespeare. Perhaps earlier than that. The nature of ... /rOl/, became /rOUl/ - which is essentially the same as the