So to recap, four digit numbers with two significant digits are usually read by first reading the first two digits and adding hundred, but this is a bit informal? I didn't really get a clear picture of whether in the same kind of informal

I like www.m-w.com too - I like that it gives pronunciation as well.

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

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

As software for English study, I recommend the text-to-speech software panopreter, it's a freeware, when you run it on Windows vista PC, it will read any English words with Microsoft Anna voice, then you can following Anna's standard

Hello, Judging from your post, I assume you are looking for easy and not too fast audioclips. These are my suggestions: VOA news : you can read a piece of news and listen to a slow recording. BBC learning English : plenty of stuff there! Just

Hello, I have a question. I have been studying English for some years now, and, at this moment, I have reached the point that, in my pronunciation of English idioms, I sound very near native, which is a good thing, obviously. However, over the

I won't argue with you, of course you're right, you're a native Italian! You can argue! After all, Italian has many variants and I can speak only for mine. After doing some search on the internet, I've found this dictionary where

Hi Amy Thank you very much indeed. The correct pronunciation is not that important for me now after I realized that even a native speaker like you would stumble on it. I guess nobody would raise an eyebrow no matter how I say it. My son, like

Here you can learn about English Pronunciation. This section of the site is divided into several sections. Please click on the one you are interested in. * How to pronounce specific sounds in English. * English word stress. * English sentence