Be patient with yourself. It is not easy to identify and reproduce some differences in pronunciation between American and British pronunciation. It takes some time to get used to it. Paco also needed plenty of time to learn some differences between these two pronunciations, so he decided to watch some videos to improve his level of American English pronunciation.
3. Paco decided to watch some videos to learn the American accent (intonation and accent)
Say if the statements below are true or false.
1) The letter R is always silent in American English.
2) American English always pronounces the letter R if it is placed at the end of a word.
3) American English never pronounces the letter R if it is placed before another consonant.
| Video de Rachel's English en Youtube |
2) True. The letter R is always pronounced when it is at the end of the word: car /ka:r/
Ejercicio Resuelto
| Video de AccurateEnglish en Youtube |
Reflexiona
In American English the emphasis in many words that came from French is placed on the first syllable, whereas in British English it is more often placed on the second syllable. This can make the word sound very differently:
BrE: con-TRO-versy, a-DDRESS, A-dult, don_ATE
AmE: CON-troversy, A-ddress, a-DULT, DON-ate
Curiosidad
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