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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...

Many native speakers have trouble hearing the difference between 'can' and 'can't' in American speech and need to ask for repetition. One trick is to be sure to lenghten the vowel in 'can't' making it 'caaaaaaaaaaaaaan't' with a nasal American /ae/. They vowel in 'can' is very brief. In rapid...

, I.e Elsewhere = DIS (Dis-Affected) UN distinction is semantic, not phonologically driven. Also these prefixes were most likely separate words origionally and over time changed to the bound morpheme we know them as. I see that most of them are semantically driven but there is a distiction...

Anonymous wrote:Hi, freak guy, otherwise You would not ferer the poor guy to long lists of words to memorise by heart or to practical usage ONLY. Have a nice sleep in Your den So, should I learn ancient roots, rules, and which consonant and vowels go here and there ? Should I burn my brain...

Hi, freak guy, of course, there are very strict rules, but these rules are rooted in ancient LAtin, if You do not know Latin, then You can claim there are no rules. But if You are not educated enought, You should not state such a nonsense. There are rules as to what consonants or vowels must...

Some words, not only verbs, that are used a lot in speaking, have one weak sound and one strong sound. Weak forms are used in 'connected speech', that is, when you are having a normal, everyday conversation or when they are in the middle of a sentence. For example, the weak form of the verb...