Aelito
Member
- Joined
- Oct 10, 2014
- Member Type
- Interested in Language
- Native Language
- French
- Home Country
- Belgium
- Current Location
- Belgium
Hello ! Through my learning of the English language, all the questions I may have faced always found solution. Yet, one and one only remains unresolved. Accents make us say words differently (can't like khant (you know, their special way of speaking that word ahah) for British people and can't like kent for American people) and our native language that makes us say sounds/worlds differently because there are sounds in English we don't really know/use in French or in other languages.
Now, cannot we agree on the fact that despite all accents we may hear and all the places people may come from, some words should sound the same way. I mean when you read "all" or "cool" or "laughing" or "enough", there's only one way to pronounce them. To me, there's more than one way to pronounce them. There's something more than accents, more than the way you speak (poshy, clearly, forced) and more than the first language you speak but I don't know what it is.
When a British guy say "hurt" is sounds like "huu(rh)t" and an American guy would rather say it like "heuhrt". Yes British drop the "r" and extend the "u" but I feel like there's something more.
I'm not clear at all but I hope that some of you will understand what I've meant. Don't hesitate to ask me more, I'll do so.
Thanks a lot!
Now, cannot we agree on the fact that despite all accents we may hear and all the places people may come from, some words should sound the same way. I mean when you read "all" or "cool" or "laughing" or "enough", there's only one way to pronounce them. To me, there's more than one way to pronounce them. There's something more than accents, more than the way you speak (poshy, clearly, forced) and more than the first language you speak but I don't know what it is.
When a British guy say "hurt" is sounds like "huu(rh)t" and an American guy would rather say it like "heuhrt". Yes British drop the "r" and extend the "u" but I feel like there's something more.
I'm not clear at all but I hope that some of you will understand what I've meant. Don't hesitate to ask me more, I'll do so.
Thanks a lot!