American English Pronunciation for Professionals American English Pronunciation for Professionals Course Title: ESLG 1130 Pronunciation for International Graduate Students Course Facts 2 Credit ...

If you're concentrating on the sounds of English, you need 44 characters to represent them all. One way of doing this is to use a common group of sound symbols.

American English is more widely used in everyday conversation, informal writing, and popular culture. It is the dominant form of English in the United States and many other countries.

The real picture is more complicated. One feature of most American English is what linguists call ‘rhoticity’, or the pronunciation of ‘r’ in words like ‘card’ and ‘water’.