Sue aside. The exact quality of some unstressed vowels is not very important in English, because it varies from accent to accent and from situation to situation. In all such cases, like stay-shun vs stay-shin or Duh-sember vs Dih-sember, just say

You can choose the one you hear the most or the one you like the most. In my opinion, it's not worth bothering with such a distinction, because it would be a useless effort, unless you really wanted to have a perfect accent where such a

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

Maybe the muscles in our lips, tongues, and throats get so used to certain patterns of motion that we just can't break the speech habits that we developed at an early age. Yes, but if someone practices hard enough, and they are also a bit

I think it's just a way to write "It will" in a way that reflects the fact sometimes the first unstressed vowel is not pronounced in fast casual speech.

I've heard him do that too. Yes, it is wrong and pretty jarring to the ear. Fawning by the press notwithstanding, I think we can all agree that he's not exactly a good extemporaneous speaker. My guess is that when he does that he has (in

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

Hi (and welcome to Englishforums Smile), As I know, in modern English the vowel is no more pronounced as... ouch! The vowel must always be pronounced the same, since it's an IPA symbol that describe a sound. IPA symbols don't change, they

syllable Segment of speech usually consisting of a vowel with or without accompanying consonant sounds (e.g., a , I , out , too , cap , snap , check ). A syllabic consonant, like the final n sound in button and widen , also constitutes a syllable.

I doubt I'd say 'I' as /ai/ in fast speech. More like just / ə /. That's a good point too, but it's not a schwa in my opinion. For me, it's the first vowel in the diphthong /aɪ/, as in "eye". In other words,