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#2 (permalink) Sun Feb 01, 2009 1:06 am How do you pronounce 'direct'? |
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| American way. |
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Kostitsyn I'm new here and I like it ;-)
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#3 (permalink) Tue Feb 03, 2009 18:01 pm How do you pronounce 'direct'? |
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Hi Torsten,
It's one of those words that I would pronounce either way.
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Alan Co-founder

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#4 (permalink) Fri Nov 13, 2009 11:55 am How do you pronounce 'direct'? |
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Hi Torsten, In Azerbaijan we learn British english and we take this test.but in spoken language i use both of them. |
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Samir_1993 I'm new here and I like it ;-)

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#5 (permalink) Tue Nov 17, 2009 11:26 am How do you pronounce 'direct'? |
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Whereas I love American accent, I try to pronounce it like Americans, thus: "Direct" |
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moresa7@gmail.com I'm new here and I like it ;-)

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#6 (permalink) Tue Nov 24, 2009 12:54 pm How do you pronounce 'direct'? |
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| hi.it sounds great in american accent. |
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John Nash New Member

Joined: 23 Nov 2009 Posts: 6 Location: AZERBAIJAN, Baku
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#7 (permalink) Tue Nov 24, 2009 13:59 pm How do you pronounce 'direct'? |
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In either way it sounds good to me but maybe [ai] is better |
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Borislav I'm here quite often ;-)
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#8 (permalink) Tue Nov 24, 2009 14:38 pm How do you pronounce 'direct'? |
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I always remind my pupils there are two ways of pronouncing this word. _________________ Everything is Anything.
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Yuri Yurinov I'm here quite often ;-)

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