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Hi, It has been my experience that students become lost when consulting dictionaries with regard to phonetic symbols as many times each one uses different phonetic symbols. This has caused much grief and I just tell my online students to stay away from it and try to spell the pronunciation out...

and an ignorant American would look at British and pronounce practise (Br. spelling) like practize.... Highly unlikely.Americans on the other hand, have been butchering it for centuries and should not be consulted when learning this language. It is, after all, English and not American.Rubbish. ...

Hi, yes, there are books that deal with stress, intonation, and pronunciation. I've read "American Accent Training" by Ann Cook. There's really a lot of stuff in that book (and on the 5 CDs). I haven't tried any other books anyway, so I can only tell you about that one. It treats American...

I’m a native British speaker. I would tend to transcribe the same vowel in ‘train’ and ‘danger’ – !

Here's how I'd say the first sentence if I put on a British accent:I must go to see my brother's new house. represents. Same for "crop".

Hmm. Ok. Well, here's how I say it:but you should probably wait for a British English speaker to respond, because I might have made some mistakes, because I can't speak Queen's English. The parts that I'm unsure of are: which vowel would be used in "danger"; how the linking r behaves in...

British English has around 44 sounds (24 Consonants + 7 short vowels + 5 long vowels + 8 diphthongs). I wonder, how many sounds are there in Standard (i.e. ignoring any regional variation) French, German, Spanish, Hindi & Chinese ???Lastly, which language in the world has the least & most...

Some people says that US and UK accents are totally different. Though, I dont find any relevant difference. Can anyone help me resolving my confussion? It really depends on what "totally" different is. And it again depends on what sort of accents you are looking at. For general discussion let...