By Vowels, Accents

Hmm, can I answer even though I am not a native speaker? I would say "thee eagle" because I learned to pronounce it "thee" before vowel sounds. Words like "university" and "wall" don't really start with a vowel sound, but with "semivowels", I...

Heh, I know in the UK there are lots of interesting accents. Some people drop this, skip that, shift vowels here, put glottal stops there... Different accent in different places, different social groups, different age groups... It's so in the US too, and in other countries too, I guess....

Yes, there are regional variations in American English. Do you know which accent is chosen by MW as the reference in the pronunciation keys. Is it General American?My problem is that, as I have mentioned before, they are indeed denoted differently in British English. The first one is a simple...

I can't tell that they are clearly Canadian, but I can tell they are not from the deep South, or New England, or New Jersey, or Brooklyn. There's a vast "Middle America" in which the accent is not very distinct at all. Then, in the middle of the country, the further north you...

First of all, you need some grammar too, because I noticed typical Asian mistakes, or non native constructions anyway.Here's the best tips I can give you:1 - Get a grammar book, and read it, learning the most common structures. "English grammar in use" by Cambridge University Press...

The two accents are a bit different, but it's easy to mix them up. It seems that Australians get their accents from the brits when they used Australia as an island for a debters prison. British sounds a bit more civilized and clipped. Sometimes it's easier to understand as well....

I agree with you. Where I am from we have /əʊ/ and LAW sounds to me as /ɔ/ though.From what I heard from Austrailians, they sound sort of like a mix of British accents. I don't know. Maybe it is me.

I was trying to imitate a kind of accent I find interesting, where words like "game" are pronounced something like /gaɪm/.The schwa is the most common sound in English, but how could I describe it? You have to hear it... it's just like "uh". I don't know why it is...

Hi,hmm, I see, but that wouldn't be a good transcription then. The way it would be read would vary from person to person. For example, you could say that people from Boston don't say GOD, but GAWD. Well, all the speakers with the cot-caught merger (that is, thy don't distinguish...

Eagerlearner wrote:I need to analyse this precisely, because it's for a software program project. Thank you.I don't want to disappoint you... but I really do NOT believe machines can understand human languages. They are too complicated. You'll have to wait for artificial intelligence.A little...