Good pronunciation is very important for good spoken communication. However you do not have to speak like a native English speaker to have good pronunciation. There are many different natural ...
If you have a rhotic accent, you pronounce the /r/ sound whenever the letter 'r' appears in a word, like in 'learn', 'better' and 'perfect'. North American accents are usually rhotic, and other ...
I explore the idea that southeastern standard British pronunciation was ‘invented’ in the 1700s, to distance upper-class British people either from Americans or from working-class people.