Hello all. I want to select for my stories for children site (URL removed by mod) a voice narrator. The problem is that I do not have such an english level to choose the best person if more than one speak very fluently What should I check for to

That doesn't mean you have to post 18 times. You shuda combined them into a single post. Since we're preaching up proper English here, please, don't post "kind-of-chat" language here. I don't belong to the set

The "l" of "bell" when it ends a word is kind of a "half l" when compared to the initial "l" in "love" which allows the "l" voicing to be completed by going to a vowel. Yet the

This sounds like a simple question. But the answers are much more involved. Coming from an Asian background, learning to speak and use the language remotely sounding like a native took many years of relentless practicing and studying. I think

r after any vowel has a special place in english. oor usually end up as ʊɚ, ɔɚ, oʊɚ poor: pʊɚ moore: mʊ ɚ , mɔ ɚ , moʊ ɚ floor: fl ɔ ɚ , floʊ ɚ door: d ɔ ɚ d oʊ ɚ oo before any but r: boom: bum doom: dum hood: h ʊd good: gʊd wood:

I mean you heard it completely like this and wrote it down or with your experience you made the sentence in a way that is correct though having not recognised it clearly. The former. I actually heard it completely. I did not invent anything on the

The correct pronunication of your friend's last name is how HE pronounces it. The same is true for any name. For what it's worth, however, I have always pronounced McElroy as "Mackle-roy", just as your friend does. Even

You got to be like everyone else now. That's nonstandard English due to careless pronunciation. Better: You have got to be like everyone ellse. = You must be... CB

Anglicizing is the way to go, since it is not productive for native english speakers to remember phonological pecularities -- and they are not peculiar for the speakers whose language contain that word. mækyəl or məki əl

I think you may be asking for explicit, black and white answers, to questions which don't lend themselves to such answers. There seem to be two problems in that there are: *Differences between British and American usages. *Differences in