Being unintelligible

R.K. Bansal, the father of Indian English pronunciation observes that

“The incorrect word accentuation by Indian speakers has been found to be one of the most frequent causes of their being unintelligible to other speakers of English”.

The advice of English people to non-native speakers is that the English words should be learnt with stress.  They find it very difficult to understand English spoken with wrong stress.

Generally, as a rule the nouns, adjectives, adverbs and main verbs are stressed in speech.  The other grammatical words like prepositions, pronouns, conjunctions and helping verbs are not stressed in continuous speech.  By following these principles of English pronunciation the foreign learner can attain the “speech flow”.

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