1 Easy Way to Improve Your American Accent | Virginia Beowulf 18+
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One easy sound - and you're American. An important feature of the American accent of English is "akanye" (how to improve pronunciation in English words with the letter "o"):
0:00 - Intro
0:16 - what feature of American pronunciation Russian-speaking students forget (using the words clock, stop as examples) and how to actually pronounce the sound "o" in American;
0:39 - when the American O sounds like A (the O sound in American and British English: single and as part of diphthongs);
0:59 - the difference between British and American accents with pronunciation examples (cop, lot, stop, clock, bother, rock, etc.);
1:29 - what American John has in common with Armenian culture;
1:32 - American akanye on a map (father-bother merger, cot-caught merger, lot-cloth split);
2:03 - different words that sound the same in American and British English (dialect-dependent homophones);
2:21 - the most frequent English words where O is always pronounced as A;
2:39 - about other differences between American and British accents.
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