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 thought this was a fun and interesting find: a poem written by Dr. Gerard Nolst Trenité called "The Chaos", which demonstrates many of the peculiarities of English spelling. Apparently, if you can correctly pronounce every word in this poem, you

Hi Chris, Right now your speech seems rather flat. Since English is a stress timed language you need to stress the most important words in each sentence. The other words can be reduced (as you are saying them now). The first thing you could do to

Caedmon, don't change anything. You speak English beautifully! If English is in fact not your first language, my guess is that you're from India... ?

I have been working on improving my English pronunciation and would be very grateful if some of you would listen to a two-minute clip of my speech and lend me your comments. The clip is 5MB in size and I've uploaded it to this URL:

I'm a junior student who major in English in Taiwan. I want to improve my pronunciation, to speak like an American. How can I change my accent??

Frequently listen to English spoken by native speakers and repeat them. Watch English movies, listen to music, audio clips, BBC news and presentations. Control your rate of speech to get the correct intonation and rhythm of English. Use your

That way, you don't get a "A little bit" pronounced like it's a series of spits, but you get " A li(t)l bi(t) ". Your comment reminded me of something I listened to a couple of weeks ago. ( Here's the link to the

4. That's Spanish . In my terrible Spanish pronunciation, it's ha-blow in-GLACE (rhymes with "place"). I'm sure a Spanish speaker will correct me. My lack of Spanish is why I would need to ask if they speak English. Hihih,

1. Yes, the article "an" and the letter E, with the stress on the first syllable. 2. Just like the article "an" 3. I've never seen this name before. Ask the mother who dreamed it up. Diane, however, is a common name: