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My answer to Why have many Americans in the last several years started dropping the pronunciation of the letter 't'… https://t.co/46ujrhEv7d

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My answer to What words do Americans and Canadians pronounce differently? https://t.co/03qfujAT0o

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My answer to Do Americans pronounce "late" with flap "t" or stop "t"? https://t.co/6vwG5YnI4W

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My answer to Why are Americans saying "Yahh" instead of the traditional "Yeah"? https://t.co/L1MbqhsmVG

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My answer to How can I learn American pronunciation well? https://t.co/BSZPUdLh3X

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My answer to How do you pronounce "the"? https://t.co/5URuocMmLv

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Temperature only has three syllables, not four. You can skip the A: temper-ture #ESL #AmericanEnglish #EnglishPronunciation #Syllables
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“She dreams about many furry sheep in her sleep.” All the words in that sentence have the ee vowel sound, except about, in, and her. #AmericanEnglish #Vowels #EnglishPronunciation #ESL https://t.co/IUrs4nQuod

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In standard American English, some Ts sound like Ds. This is called the flap T. Americans will almost always pronounce the second T in “activity” as a D. “Fishing is the activity of hunting for fish.”
#AmericanEnglish #AmericanPronunciation #T #FlapT #ESL https://t.co/rKrfyTkYxZ

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Laboratory only has four syllables, not five. You can skip the first O: lab-ratory #ESL #AmericanEnglish #EnglishPronunciation #Syllables
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Often for words ending in ES the S makes the Z sound. The pronunciation is the same as the word followed by the word “is.” For example fences, fence is, cheeses, cheese is, advances, advance is. #S #Z #SorZ #VoicedAndUnvoiced #ESL #Pronunciation https://t.co/CVtk5PHL5p

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The following words all have different vowel sounds and clearly sound different: lack lock lick leak luck look Luke like lake #ESL #AmericanEnglish #EnglishPronunciation #MinimalPairs #Vowels #AccentReduction https://t.co/ceGekCIgzR

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I didn't realize there were so many Greek words in English, but I guess it's not surprising. #English #Greek #ESL #Language https://t.co/CWxy7HhDjN

[Let's speak Greek @speakgr]

#Languages #greek #englishlangauge

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In English, D is almost always a voiced sound. These words all sound different: drip, trip, dry, try, fried, fright, feed, feet, seed, seat. #ESL #EnglishPronunciation #D #VoicedAndUnvoiced https://t.co/CVtk5PHL5p

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Actually there's another diphthong, the vowel in caught, bought, paw, and all. A diphthong is actually two vowels; one after another. (Sounds American made a mistake, "to" should be spelled "two.") #ESL #EnglishPronunciation #AmericanEnglish https://t.co/pVEuYMFWyG

[Sounds American 🇺🇸 @SoundsAmerican]

A diphthong is a sound that is formed by blending to single sounds into one syllable. There are 3 diphthongs in American English: the /ɔɪ/, the /aʊ/ and the /aɪ/, as in "boy," "bow," and "by." Here's our video about the /ɔɪ/ sound: https://t.co/bhLlIqfWm1
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Often words like “should've,” “could've,” and “would've” are reduced to “shoulda,” “coulda” and “woulda”; the “V” sound is left off. #ESL #contractions #EnglishReductions https://t.co/kkedMQuUsj

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Reference only has two syllables, not three. You can skip the second E: ref-rence #ESL #AmericanEnglish #EnglishPronunciation #Syllables
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Vegetable only has three syllables, not four. You can skip the second E: veg-table #ESL #AmericanEnglish #EnglishPronunciation #Syllables
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The following words all have different vowel sounds and clearly sound different: cat cott caught kit cut coot kite Kate coat #ESL #AmericanEnglish #EnglishPronunciation #MinimalPairs #Vowels #AccentReduction https://t.co/ceGekCIgzR

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If a word starts with k and the next letter is n, the k is silent. For example knee, knit, and knot. #EnglishPronunciation #ESL #SilentLetters #Pronunciation https://t.co/CHnnSuCaQc