Jeong Hoon Lee
How do you think of English accent and pronunciation? Hello everyone! I want to know how do native speakers think the importance of English accent and pronunciation. Are these very important? The reason why I ask this is It`s so hard to get yours for non native speaker who has never been to any other countries. If you feel uncomfortable or bad when you talk to someone who has bad accent or bad pronunciation? Actually I`ve thought that making right sentence is more important than English accent and pronunciation. However some of my friends and other people said "Hey Hoon your pronunciation is bad perhaps native speakers won`t understand you what to say" Mine is like... Speaking English in Korean... I know it`s bad but when foreigner who is not good at Korean, talks to me in Korean I can understand them what to say well!! and I think that`s nothing!! Do you guys agree with me? or English is different? It`s so complicated to me... some English letters are so difficult to pronounce such as 'r', 'th'. When I speak those kinds of letters I`m like " what language am I speaking?" I think that the more I try to pronounce them well, the more weird they are. Maybe they don`t fit my tongue. Anyway How do you think? someone who wants to learn English has to be as good as native speakers to speak naturally?
Oct 23, 2014 6:13 AM
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안녕하세요 정훈 씨~~
I just started getting back on Italki. Been busy with work, so I haven't been here or studying Korean much :/
I don't think pronunciation is as important for English. English speakers generally have a lot of experience listening to foreign people speaking, so we're used to hearing all different kinds of accents. Someone who doesn't have much exposure to foreign people though might have a hard time if your accent is thick. I also agree with you that word choice is more important than pronunciation.

October 23, 2014
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