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Re: Founder with an accent? Free offer from SayAfter.me

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British English : Americans :: American English : Brits

There is only a common spelling difference in the written sense though. An American would not fully understand someone from Yorkshire speaking Yorkshire dialect, nor would they understand someone from Merseyside, Glasgow, etc. if they were speaking in their dialect. I'm from Yorkshire originally, my dialect is totally different from those in Merseyside or the North East (for example.) How we speak and how we write is…

I don't know. Should we table this discussion?

(Noting that some words, like "to table" have the opposite meanings in British and American English. When Americans say "table" the British say "shelve" and when the British say "table" the Americans say "put forward" or "propose.")

Re: Founder with an accent? Free offer from SayAfter.me

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I would love something like this that can help me learn other accents of my own language (English), or other languages (French, perhaps), and evaluate my performance.

Adding other languages and American English is on the roadmap, never thought about other accents of English though.

Re: Founder with an accent? Free offer from SayAfter.me

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Carnegie Speech is another good product in this area, that as the name suggests came out of Carnegie Mellon a number of years ago (I have no affiliation with the company).

Wow I didn't know about this product. It looks really advanced, would be good opportunity to see the other players in the market.

I think one advantage I have over this product is, SayAfter.me stores ever growing stats of word/phrase pronunciation attempts from all users.

Later on it can build custom exercises depending on the background of a particular user.

I will be able to say "You are Spanish, other Spanish users had the most trouble with these words. So here is an exercise that contains problematic English words for native Spanish speakers".

Re: Founder with an accent? Free offer from SayAfter.me

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> I've always been uncomfortable with my pronunciations.

You mean "my pronunciation." English is pretty weird about when we do and do not use the plural form and this trips up a lot of people :) I wouldn't mention it, but given that you're here for the specific purpose of improving your English, I thought you'd want to know.

Speaking of which, mass nouns always trip non-native speakers up, especially in IT. Do NOT use the following words: datas, informations, softwares. Data is already the plural of the Latin word datum and none of those words are used by native speakers.

I would add 'codes' to that use as it is often misused, but there are a lot of times when using it is correct, so you'll just have to study up on the rules for mass nouns sometime.

Re: Founder with an accent? Free offer from SayAfter.me

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I couldn't find your pricing anywhere... I'm a native English speaker, so this product isn't relevant to me, but I wouldn't want be comfortable recommending it to anyone without knowing how much it'd cost after those first 3 months. Really critical to have in an easy-to-find place on the website IMO.

You are right, you have to be logged in to see the subscription page at: http://www.sayafter.me/subscriptions/subscribe . I will change it to be available for anonymous visitors. Thanks!

Why not just say the price here?

Re: Founder with an accent? Free offer from SayAfter.me

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Carnegie Speech is another good product in this area, that as the name suggests came out of Carnegie Mellon a number of years ago (I have no affiliation with the company).

Wow I didn't know about this product. It looks really advanced, would be good opportunity to see the other players in the market. I think one advantage I have over this product is, SayAfter.me stores ever growing stats of word/phrase pronunciation attempts from all users. Later on it can build custom exercises depending on the background of a particular user. I will be able to say "You are Spanish, other Spanish user…

Are you using google speech api? Site looks great!
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