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I think you're right on, Kooyeen. And thanks for the reply. I am a stickler in my pronunciation classes that students learn to say the -s (and -ed) endings correctly. Even though I do this, I know that native English speaking Americans rarely say that voiced endings as perfectly voiced, yet...

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 dictionary.Familiarize yourself with the phonetic...

I am very talented with accents, but I have had to accept the fact that I am getting older and the ability to imitate an accent is diminishing. I am a native speaker of standard mid-western American English (considered to be accent free in the US). I speak Spanish with several regional accents,...

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...

Hi, those two vowels are the same to me. The only difference between "how's" and "house" is the final consonant. I think this is true for both General American and the kind of British English that is usually learned. I don't know if there are people who make a distinction or situations where a...

Hi Kooyeen, Sounds like a good question for CJ. I haven't been to MW but plan to go. Mr. M got me some information there which I'd been unable to find elsewhere. I gather from your examples they use what I've heard called phonetic spelling, rather than the phonetic symbols I've seen on this...

Hi David,here you can find some stuff about American English. Vowels, consonants, lots of stuff...http://evaeaston.com/pr/home.htmlOn that website there's also a link to this page, where the states are pronounced.http://evaeaston.com/pr/states.htmlIf you need to know how to pronounce a word in...

That's right, because of elision (the /d/ in and is not pronounced because it is surrounded by other consonants) and weak forms (and and in are both structure words and therefore not stressed. Their vowel sounds are reduced to /ə/)The end result:/fɔ:kənnaɪf/ (I'm not sure if that second /n/...

I can't imagine how you can drop a vowel, to be honest - do you have any examples. Some working class accents drop some consonants.

Dear forum-ers, I was born in the UK and acquired the english language as a joint first language with arabic. My family moved back to our country when I was still a child, and although I always maintained a very high standard of spoken, and written english I unfortunately lost my accent. I...