Comments on: Diferenças culturais modificam o Inglês

By: Izolan

Izolan — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 22:49:18 +0000

No caso abaixo (pronúncias não exatamente iguais):

“I want a glass of water!”

Americano: “auana glés ov uóder”
Inglês: “auantsâ glás ov uótsâ”

By: Adam

Adam — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 11:07:00 +0000

Let me clear up a little misconception about consonants in the middle of words (such as the t in little and the d in middle). Brazilians think that Americans pronounce this with an r sound. That is very wrong. We pronounce little with a very soft t sound and middle with a very soft d sound. It may appear to you that is an r, but the enunciation is quite different.
In your example, let it be what it is, there are a lot of t’s… We enunciate each and every t as a t sound, but since we talk fast, it may appear as an r, but they are t’s… I just said this phrase, and during each t, my tongue went to the top of my teeth which is necessary to pronounce the t. If I were to pronounce a Brazilian r, this is almost like pronouncing an English h which doesn’t require the tongue.

From a native US English speaker…

By: Alessandro Brandão

Alessandro Brandão — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 11:05:00 +0000

Thank you! Your feedback is a great motivation to me. If you wanna see these accent differences take a look at this link:
ODDCAST

By: Josney

Josney — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 22:59:00 +0000

Alguns americanos usam o 'eh' como artifício para fingir que são canadenses em viagens internacionais. Os estadunidenses são vistos como arrogantes e sobretudo com a imagem de dominadores após a era Bush, por isso, muitos escondem a nacionalidade fingindo que são Canadenses. Quanto ao T britânico, cuidado! Ambos britânicos e americanos falam similarmente ao 'r' no caso abaixo:

Let it be what it is.

Porque temos uma vogal após o T. Entendido?

By: leo

leo — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 21:58:00 +0000

Bruto!!!!