Any English language student knows that spelling isn’t always useful in determining how to pronounce a word correctly.
The spelling of English words hasn’t changed much over time, but how we pronounce them has. Pronunciation becomes a serious issue for language learners as a result of this. However, good pronunciation is more than just ‘how words and letters sound.’ Other factors to consider include intonation (how the tone of voice changes during a sentence, going up or down), stress (which words and syllables have more ‘weight’ when we speak), and connected speech (how words sound different when they are joined together in natural speech). All of these characteristics help with pronunciation, but don’t confuse them with an accent.
There are many distinct sorts of accents in the United Kingdom, the United States, and other English-speaking countries, but people with those accents can all be deemed to have correct pronunciation. You don’t have to sound British or American when learning English. It is not necessary to sound like you were born in New York or London to have good pronunciation. Many native English speakers, in fact, like hearing English with a Spanish, Italian, or French accent! So, even if you keep your native accent, how can you improve your pronunciation so that people from all over the world can understand you easily?
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