Guess/gas

"Mary" (Email Removed) schrieb im Newsbeitrag
[nq:1]I'm just reading the post "I guess/I'm guessing". Then I realize "guess" is very close to "gas" in pronunciations, at ... I probably sound like "I'm gassing". For this reason, would it be wise for me to avoid saying "I'm guessing"?[/nq]
No.

[nq:1]I'm just reading the post "I guess/I'm guessing". Then I realize "guess" is very close to "gas" in pronunciations, at ... I probably sound like "I'm gassing". For this reason, would it be wise for me to avoid saying "I'm guessing"?[/nq]
In favor of saying "I gas"? That doesn't seem to make much sense. It's probably best to try to master/mistress the distinction between /E/ and /&/, or, i

"Areff" (Email Removed) schrieb im Newsbeitrag
[nq:2]I'm just reading the post "I guess/I'm guessing". Then I ... it be wise for me to avoid saying "I'm guessing"?[/nq]
[nq:1]In favor of saying "I gas"? That doesn't seem to make much sense. It's probably best to try to master/mistress ... Prestige Standard(tm)). In American English there are fairly significant differences among different a

No.
[nq:2]In favor of saying "I gas"? That doesn't seem to ... among different accents in how /&/ and /E/ are pronounced.[/nq]
[nq:1]And for many foreign students (Germans certainly) the difference is infinitesimal. It's all very well to say that they should master the difference; in practice, it is very difficult to master vowel sounds that don't occur in your own language.[/nq]
This

[nq:2]And for many foreign students (Germans certainly) the difference is ... master vowel sounds that don't occur in your own language.[/nq]
[nq:1]This is true.[/nq]
I have lived in the US for more than eighteen years, and still find that I do not say "a" and "e" in the same way as Americans. I have to spell the name of my street out, or it is taken to begin with "A" rather than "E". When

[nq:1]I'm just reading the post "I guess/I'm guessing". Then I realize "guess" is very close to "gas" in pronunciations, at ... I probably sound like "I'm gassing". For this reason, would it be wise for me to avoid saying "I'm guessing"?[/nq]
You might like to try learning the standard
pronounciation, rhyming guess with mess
and gas with mass. English speakers are
familiar with the

[nq:2]I'm just reading the post "I guess/I'm guessing". Then I ... it be wise for me to avoid saying "I'm guessing"?[/nq]
[nq:1]You might like to try learning the standard pronounciation, rhyming guess with mess and gas with mass.[/nq]
The problem is that to native speakers of German and many other languages, all four of those words, pronounced by a native English speaker, sound as though

"Adrian Bailey" (Email Removed) schrieb im Newsbeitrag
[nq:1]No.[/nq]
Actually, I think it's more influenced by the fact that there are so many words which are the same except for the presence or absence of an umlaut on the U. The difference, for example, between "wurde" and "würde" routinely defeats me.

"Don Phillipson" (Email Removed) schrieb im Newsbeitrag
[nq:2]I'm just reading the post "I guess/I'm guessing". Then I ... it be wise for me to avoid saying "I'm guessing"?[/nq]
[nq:1]You might like to try learning the standard pronounciation, rhyming guess with mess and gas with mass. English speakers are familiar with the problems of nearly-related phonemes and manage them OK.[/nq]

[nq:2]In favor of saying "I gas"? That doesn't seem to ... among different accents in how /&/ and /E/ are pronounced.[/nq]
[nq:1]And for many foreign students (Germans certainly) the difference is infinitesimal. It's all very well to say that they should ... I still have an English accent, and I still have difficulty with the difference between "u" /u/ and "ü" /y/.[/nq]
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