5 rules of American pronunciation which should know to you

If you want to resemble American speaker, should learn to you from the rules of pronunciation of the American English. There are many them but the study at least of some basic rules will improve your accent spectacularly. Which are these rules?

Note: some of the rules enumerated below are not only employed in the American English. Many foreign loudspeakers make errors when it comes to the standard English rules thus I decided to include these rules too.

“T” becomes “D”


“T” becomes “D” when it falls between two vowels.

For example: “bitter” is pronounced like the “tenderer”. “Water” is marked like the “wader”.

Of

Though the word “of” is spelled with “F”, he pronounced with “V”. It is an exception.

For example: “it made wood” is marked “made the wood of OV for him”.

“S” or “Z”


If a word finishes with a voiceless noise (F, K, P, T, except “S”), “S” is pronounced like “S” voiceless, but when it finishes with CH, the dg, the S, HS, Z, a vowel or an expressed consonant, it pronounced like longer, “Z” expressed (“zzz”).

For example: “It looks at” is pronounced with “S voiceless” (which it finishes with “K”) but of the “judges” is pronounced with “Z” expressed - as the “judgezzz”. The “tree” finishes with a vowel, thus it pronounced the “treezzz”.

- ends of ED

Many verbs in which to be in the end of last “- ED” but” - ED “is differently marked, according to the end of mot. If a word finishes with a voiceless consonant, “- the ED” is pronounced like “T”. If a word finishes with an expressed consonant, he pronounced like “D”. If a word finishes with “T” or “D”,” - the ED “is pronounced like the “ED” normal.

For example: “I walked” is marked “me walk-T” (because it finishes with “K”), “I moved” is marked “me movements-D” (because it finishes with an expressed consonant). “I voted” is marked “me voted” because it finishes with “T”.

- ends of NG


There are three nasal noises in English and the “NG” is one of them. The “NG” is a combination of “NR” and “G” but “G” is not marked.

For example: “he walk” is pronounced as “is to him on one level”. “G” is not marked!

They are some basic rules of pronunciation of English and American English. There are much more rules of pronunciation but the study and the practice of the five above will improve your accent incontestably.