In my AmE: talk, caught, bought all have the same vowel sound. You can hear it pronounced HERE . Long, door, car and father have 4 different vowel sounds, which you should be able to hear at the same website as the link above.

When do the Spaniards pronounce the s like th? I know at the end of words and the "z" as well. But, is there a rule about vowels or consonants with the "s"? You could ask this question at Foro De Espanol , EF's

I won't argue with you, of course you're right, you're a native Italian! You can argue! After all, Italian has many variants and I can speak only for mine. After doing some search on the internet, I've found this dictionary where

Hello, I don't know this either. I thought diphthongs could consist only of combinations of vowel sounds. I've just checked this in some dictionaries and they seem to confirm my understanding. From Oxford online dic : diphthong : a

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,

Does anyone know of a website that explains when we don't double the consonant even though the second last letter is a vowel? I would like to know which letters do and don't get doubled. Thanks.

There are rules for spelling and doubling the constonant depending on the consontants and vowels pattern in the word. Look up ING rules online.

There are basically two types of linking: consonant > vowel We link words ending with a consonant sound to words beginning with a vowel sound When a word ends in a consonant sound, we often move the consonant sound to the beginning of the

Hi, I've come across THIS WEBSITE , which seems pretty interesting. It contains, for each consonant and vowel sound, both animations and audioclips.

On Thursday, in article Thanks for the informative and entertaining repiles. I suspect that no one would have evolved into noone by now if ... puntuation/accents available we could have resolved the issue with an umlaut or somesuch. Or what about