I thank you all for your effort to help me and of course for your time... I think my questions were answered. Especially a reply by Marvin A. completely answered my questions. What pronunciation to choose depends on what American accent you want

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

(S)he is probably speaking with Americans in a call center. The more American sounding, the better. The three biggest problems with Indian call centers are 1. there is too much background noise 2. the phone rep is speaking way too quickly 3.

got suck at learning american accent cuz some vowel are difficult to pronounce.. What are those vowels that you find difficult? Just keep a set of words (as they are called lexical sets) which are representative of those dificult vowels. Then

This is taken from CalifJim - a member of Englishforums.com a) between vowel and vowel (intervocalic t ), b) between r and vowel, c) between vowel and syllabic l d) between r and syllabic l . a) bi tt er, me t er, pho t ograph, erra t ic, la t er

It came to me as a shock when I first found out that Americans use "d" in leu of "t" in certain cases. I hope you've recovered from your shock! The advice in that clip is very good. Nevertheless, the t between vowels has

It makes it even more difficult when you look at the variations in the American Dialect. There is no "American Accent" --there are 7 recognized main divisions (Western/Californian, Upper Midwest, Midland, Southern, MidAtlantic,

My instructor says that when a word ends with a vowel sound and if the next word starts with a vowel sound, then I'm supposed to add an "r" in between to read that out. This does not apply to American English in any significant way.

I'm undergoing accent neutralization training. My instructor says that when a word ends with a vowel sound and if the next word starts with a vowel sound, then I'm supposed to add an "r" in between to read that out. I'm a bit

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