I've been away from this forum for a while, and meantime I've enrolled for a five-year (gulp!) degree in English (which includes grammar, literature, linguistics, and so on) at a distance university. Right now I'm starting to delve

I don't use that website either because it seems to pronounce words with an annoying posh accent, and there are no phonetic transcriptions. I just need the transcription because I already have my way of pronouncing each phoneme, so I usually

Get an electronic pronouncing dictionary and practise your pronunciation every day for 10-20 minutes, without exceptions. Use books with English idioms, and practise with your computer/laptop and a piece of paper. Pick out a word. Try to predict

Hi, and welcome to Englishforums. I will move this thread to the section about pronunciation after you reply, OK? Because here we just post about grammar issues. Anyway, how sounds are produced depends on the dialect you are considering... there

Thanks for reply, I think too they have problems to connect /t/ and /r/. I have "I also think that they have problems connecting.." Thanks for correct me. experienced it is difficult to pronounce and is easier say /tSrai/ instead /trai/.

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But in many British accents (and I think some American ... and so I don't think of myself as saying "theerter". So too for me. "Theater" and "idea" (each two syllables) are, I think, the only words where I have a

Is there any dictionary that would provide the pronunciation of ... Indiana where the "correct" pronunciation is not the dictionary pronunciation. Street and place names are commonly mispronounced by me. Dictionaries often don't have

English ‹ an easy language? Multi-national personnel at North Atlantic Treaty Organization headquarters near Paris found English to be an ... English pronunciation. I will teach you in my verse Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse.(snip

I have a little disagreement with a friend of mine. He assures me that an archive file created with a ... "zipped"? He says he came across a "zip'ed file" at universities' websites many times. What do you think about