Quote Originally Posted by kib View Post
Hi iCake!
Although, as I understood, you approve of answers from native speakers better I'll venture to say one or two things about your work.

N
1. There's written "knock", but on the recording you say "not", don't you?
2. In the word "spine" you aspirate the "p", but p, t, k are not aspirated before "s".
3. And in "between" the other way round there's a kind of aspiration. Just listen to some recording, find there words with "tw" and note how it's pronounced
4. "Telephone", again not aspirated.

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1."Come" not aspirated
Thanks for the tips but as you can see the thread title is "Mastering American pronunciation step by step". I'm just not that advanced student to know what you were talking about. I just never even got to those p, k, t etc sounds yet. All I've done are almost all the major vowels and M, N consonants. Anyway, your post is extremely useful and I'll definitely look into it. Thanks.

About the "knock", I didn't try to say "not" I tried to say "knock". Native speakers seem to hear it the way I tried to pronounce that but maybe you're right.