Hello Everybody! I am currently developing a site for language learning. I am currently focusing on two aspects. I am trying to build a database of audio files to help people improve their english vocabulary and pronunciation. I

The first thing you need is an accent reduction course, because you need to learn the phonemes. For Amercan English, I suggest "American Accent Training" by Ann Cook. For British English, I suggest "English Pronunciation in

Oh, well, I guess I'll have to agree about the "educational" system. I was all over the school website for ... found lots of "feel good" stuff. Terrific. The kids now have great self-esteem. When does education come into

I have not heard that, but increasingly often ... rarely correcting mis-hearings by reading (well-edited) texts. I completely agree with the curmudgeon, yet another manifestation of the prevalence of televison over reading. It even extends to ...

"Molly Mockford" (Email Removed) a écrit dans le message de : Why is it a university, but an umbilical cord? Because of the pronunciation, not the spelling. University is pronounced Yooniversity (i.e. a consonant-sound rather than a

I think it might be an idea to have something on the website about "short" and "long" vowels, because there does seem to be some confusion about this. Long and short vowels (in the layman's sense of "long" and

the of helps, This is true, but it complicates matters. For example (here I'm using ASCII IPA to represent IPA), the Collins dictionaries, Cambridge dictionaries, and the OED all use (@U) to represent the British (Received Pronunciation)

Just lately I have heard several people, including sports commentators on radio, using the term 'furtherest' when they obviously mean ... 'furtherest'. The superlative of far is always given as 'furthest'. Has anyone else

They do. It was cut-&-pasted from the on-line full OED, which they boast is updated quarterly. That particular definition is ... dating of it as 1989 means that in 1989 they looked at it and found no need to revise it. I believe that that is

I don't know from linguistics and phonetics (we're sending Young Aaron to grad school for that), but I think the ... context where there's a closely linked following word beginning with a vowel, however, it turns into a flap sound (*)