American-English was British-English, except that it was altered significantly by all of the various influences (immigrants/languages from other countries) that learned to speak it in America. Everyone in the UK knows how to communicate in English

AJ Hoge's "effortless english" is a waste of money. I made the mistake of buying it for a friend who doesn't speak much English and she doesn't even use it. I don't blame her because it takes a lot of effort to learn with

I haven't the patience to read through all of that thread, but there is no single American pronunciation. We have several regional dialects, all of which are acceptable. The Webster's pronunciations that I have already given you are fine– what

According to both the Cambridge Dictionary and the Oxford Dictionary, "bag'gel" is not the British pronunciation of the word "bagel". If those two dictionaries are any indication, the British pronunciation is basically

I noticed that this question is tagged as unanswered. Received pronunciation is so named because it was 'received by', i.e. taught to public school pupils and RADA pupils. ( RADA = Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts ). You can hear example in

And how about hafta, gotta, gonna, wanna, shoulda... even on the news - Peter Jennings started using them on the evening news! If I fully enunciated "have to" "going to", "want to" and other common reductions in a

Ok, lol... then... I don't know if I understand your problem, but you are right, transcriptions in dictionaries are not accurate. But I don't know what to say, because it varies from dictionary to dictionary...I'll just give you a few

The vowel must always be pronounced the same, since it's an IPA symbol that describe a sound. IPA symbols don't change, they are defined that way, and they remain so, so that we can describe some sounds. Hmm... But don't you think this

Hi (and welcome to Englishforums Smile), As I know, in modern English the vowel is no more pronounced as... ouch! The vowel must always be pronounced the same, since it's an IPA symbol that describe a sound. IPA symbols don't change, they

If you think "opporchunity" is hard to imagine, try "prositchution." I think the reason we American English speakers are so befuddled by this is that's it's easy to imagine why a dialect would adopt a variation of (what