By Pronunciation, Past tenses

Hi. On TV you may not hear the sounds, the tongue-play within the chamber of the mouth and the tiny air stops, etcetera that occur when people speak. You need to be face-to-face with your pronunciation coach.I can well see how you "hear" FAX for facts, because the sounds are about...

My students always have questions about this pronunciation feature. I know of four patterns that might help you predict where to pronounce 't' as a soft /d/.1. when a ‘t’ is between vowels when the preceding vowel is stressed in words such as: city, party, forty, water2. when a ‘t’ comes...

Not all words work the same way! The plural of cactus is cacti, but I've learned here the plural of status (in Latin) is status, with a different pronunciation. (And we're not talking in Latin anymore anyway.) Just like sing takes sang in the past, while bring takes brought, not all word with...

No Death by Guru at all, Toughcookie-- but I don't think that correcting any of the three pronunciations is really that more important than the others. I have one student who assiduously pronounces what should be /t/ endings so strongly as /d/ that his past tenses are often unintelligible; I...

Does anyone feel like watching that video? (it's 25 seconds. I left the context, the important part is only a couple of seconds) Is that too big to download? Should this be moved to the pronunciation section?The fact is that I'm also asking about grammar. And, on second thought, I wonder if even...

Hello everyone! Could you have a look at the following sentence? Is it correct or not?-A student said that his pronunciation had improved/come on after he began listening to radio programmes in English. I'm in two minds about this sentence. I'm not certain that I can put the past tenses like...

Ohh you are right, he was asking for pronunciation.I misread, sorry.

Pidr1nhu, the question was does the pronunciation change. If you say "I can read" and "I have read," the way you say "read" changes. But the way you say "beat" does not change. Also, as an American, I would say "They had beaten more natural than "They had beat..." - What is the souce that say...

The pronunciation of beat does not change.

I'm not familiar with MLB. In American English it is very common to omit the "t" when it follows a stressed syllable ending in "n" and precedes an unstressed syllable beginning with a vowel. "winter" and "winner" are indistinguishable. The absence of the t sound here is not an aspirated...