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In general terms and every day encounters, I don't mind at all, I think diversity of accents adds to the flavour of life but when it comes to actually teaching English , it feels like a bit of a problem. We are teaching abroad in an Asian country. They are familiar with American English but I am the first British.

For example, Americans and British pronounce words quite differently and thats to be expected. I really don't mind the intonations of how certain sylabols are emphasised more etc.

But my thing I have a problem with is the way certain letters are said, seemingly entirely wrong.
- I. e, whenever there is a "T" in the middle of a word, Americans will never pronounce the T. Instead, "T" will be replaced with a "D" in vocalisation.
- For example,
- "Water" becomes "wader",
- "better" becomes "bedder"
- "Weather" becomes "Wedder"

other examples
- "H" beginning words also miss out the H entirely,
- "herb" is said like "erb",
- "house" is "ouse" etc

"A" is also generally said exactly the same as an "E"
- I ran into this problem when I was saying names and may students were convinced their names were said different.
- Amanda thought it was "Emenda"
My student Annie pronouced her name as "Any", I had to correct her but than I wrote the two words "Annie" and "Any" on the board asking her how you say each... they pronounced them exactly the same and said they were the same.

I don't know whether I should switch letters to be letters they aren't since of course I'm not American or correct them since it seems like it could be a bit counter intuitive since most of their exposure to English likely will be american?