[hoangthai]

Originally Posted by delux1024

It the same "an hour", "a university", It isn't depend on letter "y", it's depend on pronunciation

hey, what do you do for a living?

[AndyMai]

Originally Posted by delux1024

It the same "an hour", "a university", It isn't depend on letter "y", it's depend on pronunciation

havent done any research on this yet, but base on your answer i highly doubt it

[hoangthai]

Originally Posted by AndyMai

havent done any research on this yet, but base on your answer i highly doubt it

in my opinion, i don't care about /ði/ or /ðə/, it's like a reflect, naturally it'd go with the word that make less work to do with the tounge. Sometime i see that they use /ði/ with an consonant. Those are not important at all, they will understand you.

[AndyMai]

of course it wouldnt be that important in everyday communication, but for IELTS and such, tsk

[philu28]

@hoangthai: Are you deliberately making grammar mistakes in your statement? True, noone but your writing class tutor would care such things

[hoangthai]

Originally Posted by philu28

@hoangthai: Are you deliberately making grammar mistakes in your statement? True, noone but your writing class tutor would care such things

yeah, my writing and grammar is bad, i could know a word, how it's sounded but sometime i forgot how it's written. When i speak, i can hardly control these things, it's all follow the feelings

[philu28]

Originally Posted by hoangthai

yeah, my writing and grammar is bad, i could know a word, how it's sounded but sometime i forgot how it's written. When i speak, i can hardly control these things, it's all follow the feelings

True story for me, bro )

[Mr.6]

Originally Posted by BoyLovesDollar

Can any1 tell me how to speak "the" in "the years"? /ði/ or /ðə/ ? I used to speak as /ði/ but when I listen to music I hear that singers speak /ðə/. So when we have to speak /ði/ or /ðə/ if the next word starts with letter "y"?

grammars in songs are not correct sometimes...
for example: listen to breakeven, the lyric has a part is: it dont breakeven....
so dont worry about that that much. According to me: before vowels, say /ði/, the rest say /ðə/. But i dont pronounce "the" as /ðə/ btw

[philu28]

^ Why u all sleep so late?

[hoangthai]

Do you guys here enjoy taking some late-night foods ? Noodles, for instance ?