This post focuses on the specific difficulties that people from India encounter when speaking English, or during pronunciations of certain parts of English speech. For overall accent reduction and how to lose your accent, refer to the posts at the bottom of this article. Based on common observations by everybody and feedback, here are some of the main problem areas, along with the tips to improve them: 1. The pronunciation of ‘Rs’, ‘Ts’, ‘Ds’ is not clear or hard to understand/distinguish: ‘T’ sound almost like ‘D’:T in some parts of American speech is supposed to be less crisp. It should sounds more like a ‘d’ in many cases, especially between vowels. Katie is pronounced almost like KaDie, water like waDer. ‘R’ pronunciation: There are varying observations on the sound of ‘R’: -Let the sound of R flow; don’t put too much stress on this sound especially in the middle or in the end of a word. -Don’t totally chewing up the sound of ‘R’ in other cases. Practice the stress on this sound, and listen to how your American/English friends use it. In ‘Robert’, the stress is on first R; let the mprove Your English Pronunciation AccentSchool.com offers all the accent reduction services that you need to improve your English pronunciation techniques. Please explore our accent reduction resources and software, and schedule a free accent reduction consultation today!
American English Pronunciation: The Sounds of C & S Saturday, April 4, 2009 0 Comments Since English is not a phonetic language there is not always a one-on-one relationship between the letters in the English alphabet and spoken sounds. This can cause problems when you want to pronounce English words. The 26 letters in the English (Roman) alphabet make more than 26 spoken sounds.