Dear friend, glides are sounds produced with little or no obstruction of the airstream that are preceded or followed by a vowel. If they are followed by vowels, they are called on-glides , as in woo, where /w/ is an on-glide. If these sounds are

Hi 1) was there --> You could try making the 'th' sound a bit more like a /z/. Then the tongue won't necessarily touch the back of the upper teeth anymore, but that's quite acceptable in my opinion. Note: the 's' in

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

These are OK: You want to let me help you?-- Very casual. Do you want to let me help you? Do not use ' wanna' (or gonna, coulda, woulda . etc) in ANY written English unless you are actually transcribing speech (i.e. writing dialogue). It is not

Language is not static; it changes all the time. In fact, the t-sound used to be correct. Quote: "Often was pronounced with a t-sound until the 17th century, when a pronunciation without the /t/ came to predominate in the speech of the

The point, I think, is that 'wanna', 'gonna', etc are not words. The words remain 'want to', 'going to'. 'Wanna' and 'gonna' are orthographic representations of the pronunciation in many mouths. As such, they should be used in written quotations

I have been taking advantage of another text reader to improve English pronunciation and listeing, I installed panopreter which is a free text-to-speech software, it reads with default Microsoft voices on Windows, I run it on Windows Vista, so I

Phonics shows letter-sound correspondence patterns that exist in traditional spelling (what I call tradspel). It looks at letters and letter strings (letters in sequence) and shows how sounds are commonly spelled by them. Phonics is good for

The received pronunciation mode of speech lends an air of ... America where such natural phenomena things tend to get "corrected." I know, I know! I just thought I'd play the straight man and set up all the inevitable US responses.