2 - US English

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_English

This site gives us some informations about American English (US English), differences between British English and American English, phonology, vocabulary, creation of an American lexicon, morphology, english words that survived in the United States, regional differences, further reading, sources, notes and external links.

http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/english/frameset.html

This page is about English phonetics and there is a list of the sounds of US English. The categories are divided in consonants (manner, place, voice) and vowels (monophthongs and diphthongs). It’s is interesting for users who want to learn about American English pronunciation.




http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_English

It explains the concept of North American English. There are links to American and British English differences, list of American words not widely used in the United Kingdom, list of words having different meanings in British and American English, dialects of English in North America.




http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/cgi-bin/aesl/aesl

The website contains pronunciations captured in individual audio files for more than 50.000 of the most common words in English. It’s interesting to know that the words were extracted from newswire and telephone conversation. Each word was read by an adult female native speaker of American English in a quiet recording studio.