- the "l" in "lee" is a clear L : we find it before vowels and /j/. - the "l" in "bell" is a dark one : we find it in all other cases (end of word, before a consonant). However, it is said that in American

The only word that I know of (American Heritage Dictionary now recognizes it) without a written vowel is "nth". Don't forget, Anon, that y sometimes serves as a vowel, not just a demi-vowel.

Very interesting. Phonemes helped me a lot, but if I had known the expression "un" I might have understood correctly. From Longman: (BrE spoken) a short form of 'one', used to say that someone or something is good, bad etc. As

well the English D and T sound like a Spanish R (not double R but just R) - the Spanish J sounds like a English H - the Spanish L and English L don't sound alike (they are different sounds), and the same happened with the Spanish and English T

does bang have a long or short vowel sound It's considered a short vowel (lax vowel), but -- at least in American English -- the ng that follows somewhat modifies it so that it doesn't sound exactly the same as the short a in cat to most

(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.

I'm unclear as to when do we pronounce T as d. I heard rules like t between two vowels is supposed to be pronounced as "d", but what about par t y, shif ty , for example?

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

In California English, you can see front vowels raised before velar nasal: esp in the words like "thank you" and "think" In thank,you hear e, instead of /ae/.