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I'm not a native speaker of English, either, though with perfect American fluency. I find myself switching to "international English" in those contexts. Actual
by hpkuarg 6y ago
I'm not a native speaker of English, either, though with perfect American fluency. I find myself switching to "international English" in those contexts.
Actually, the word "international" is a good example -- in my regular American accent it would be pronounced like "innernational", whereas I would distinguish the T when conversing with non-native speakers.
- dmoy 6y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flapping https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flapping TL;DR, it's not actually "innernational", but rather an alveolar flap on the t that you have a hard time distinguishing between depending on where you grew up.
- jevfdhwdlpp 6y agoActually, according to the link you’ve provided, it seems that’s an alveolar “nasal” flap, which sounds different to American ears from the regular alveolar flap. It would sound like “itternational” pronounced by an American if an alveolar flap were to be used.