I don't recommend that site for any one. It is full of crap when it comes to AmE. Use either M-W and reference.com dude in AmE = 'dud Notice the yod-dropping, that is, no /j/ (in IPA) after alveolar consonants. What do you mean? I

I don't know of a webpage that drills these ideas, but here is some written material that may help. There are, in American English, five types of verb with regard to the pronunciation of the regular past tense. (The spelling rules are

As a learner of the Polish language I've come to accept that all consonant combinations are possible with enough practice. Ksenofobia is the Polish word for Xenophobia, pronounced exactly as it would be in English if a word-initial

Anonymous wrote: >> Only one exception, after (the attachment was from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary) after the sounds OK: /fd/ the sounds like /ft/ << Nope. There is no difference where it comes to the

Yes, as I said above, this is to be expected where the vowel is followed by a fortis ("unvoiced") consonant ... to have (o), but it's the only word I can think of containing /@US/, unless we want to count "oshit!" For me

{d} is defined by the International Phonetic Association to be a voiced alveolar plosive. (See http://www2.arts.gla.ac.uk/IPA/pulmonic.html .) Now "plosive" is ... sound, it's so small as to be hardly noticeable, and it seems

/eIdZ/ There's only one syllable; you must mean the final ... countless other English words: judge, edge, jail, June, major, etc. Thanks for replying, I am according with you but, Then is wrong to pronounce the final segment as the first sound

I think the usual pronunciation of 'Juan' in AmE is ... To me, /hwAn/ sounds sort of pretentious, so to say. Here in the UK, the name is not so well known. Those who have any idea of how to say it, probably will attempt to pronounce the

Just as the /n/ in "sink" gets assimilated to a velar /N/ to match the following velar /k/, the extra ... because English doesn't preserve geminate nasals. The result is /'g@v@rm@nt/, which is normal, except for hypercorrectors.

The pronunciation of "r" is very difficult for some asians, especially r in the middle of a word such as " murder". In Standard British English the "r" at the end of a syllable isn't pronounced. This type of