Phonetics: The sounds of American English. Curiosità sull'accento americano? Non c'è un solo accento americano.
Ogni zona degli Stati Uniti ha un accento particolare e diverso. Ad esempio, a New York si parla con un accento, mentre a Boston l'accento è diverso. Gli accenti del sud sono simili ma non sono sempre uguali. Ad esempio l'accento di Texas è un po' diverso di quello di Tennessee o di North Carolina. Non c'è una pronuncia "ufficiale" che tutti devono imparare. Nei film molti attori cercano di parlare con l'accento del personaggio. Alcuni esempi. Tra questi due si sente immediatamente la differenza tra la pronuncia della parola "call". Nota anche l'accento di Boston: Il nome Bob si pronuncia [bɔəb] (con la [ɔ] O aperta italiana), mentre la pronuncia newyorkese è [bɑb] (simile alla A italiana).
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Words that look the same might have very different pronunciations. For example, cough, tough, through, bough, though, borough all end in ough but all have a different British English pronunciation (though in American English pronunciation, the last syllable of borough rhymes with though). Each Macmillan Dictionary definition comes with free audio pronunciation and may help you with your English pronunciation in two ways: every headword is spelled out using the International Phonetic Alphabet; where more than one pronunciation is acceptable, variations are shownmost headwords have a pronunciation button ; if you click on the button you will hear the audio pronunciation.
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My name is Mandy, and this is our 196th episode. I received an email from someone named Chao a few weeks ago. Chao is a native Chinese speaker who is having trouble with words that end in -le and asked me to do a podcast about it. When I got the email from Chao, it really struck a chord because Queenie, an in-person Chinese student of mine, is having the exact same problem. People (peopo) table (tabo) bottle (botto) cuddle (cuddo) struggle (struggo) Even if your native language is not Chinese, it's really easy to accidentally do the same thing that Chao and Queenie are doing. When I was working with Queenie, I could see that when a word ended in the l sound, the corners of her lips came inward, making her lips rounded. Pronunciation guide. All pronunciations in this dictionary are American pronunciations.
There is one audio pronunciation for every headword in the dictionary, which you can hear by clicking the speaker icon at the top of the entry. Other words may also have an audio file attached, so wherever there is a speaker icon, you can hear the word pronounced. In the written pronunciations, the following symbols are used: If more than one written pronunciation is given for a word, they are all acceptable, but the first form given is the most common. Not all possible American pronunciations are shown in this dictionary.
. / ˈ / shows the strong stress in a word or group of words. . / ˌ / shows a weaker (or secondary) stress. American speakers use the sound /t̮/, which is like a quick /d/, in many words spelled with -t- or -tt-. Strong and Weak Forms Some very common words, for example an, for, of, and that, have two or more pronunciations: a strong form and one or more weak forms. Pronunciation guide. Sounds. Which words do American's pronounce most strangely compared to the proper English way ? English Pronunciation Lesson. Fun Easy English - American English Pronunciation.