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If you learned to speak English in India, your pronunciation of American English will be affected by both your native language(s) and the Indian English Dialect. Whether you first spoke Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Gujarati, Punjabi, Bengali or another language, it is likely that you have some of the following pronunciation patterns that contribute to your accent when speaking English.
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Step 1: W
can sound like v at the start of words why sounds like vie Step 2: V can sound like W at the start of words very sounds like wary can sound like F at the ends of words leave sounds like leaf
Step 3: Z
can sound like s at the ends of words was /wʌz/ sounds like wass Step 4: D can sound like “t” at the ends of words, or be left off the ends of words code sounds like coat, or we’d sounds like we Step 5: /ɪ/ “vowel ɪ” can sound like vowel ee /i/ it sounds like eat Step 6: TH /θ/ (as in “think, with”) can sound like t at the start or ends of words thing sounds like ting with sounds like wit Step 7: TH /ð/ (as in those, breathe) can sound like d at the start or ends of words those sounds like dose breathe sounds like breed Step 8: /ɹ, ɚ/ "vowel er" can sound like vowel schwa /ə/ bird sounds like bud Step 9: R can be rolled Step 10: P can sound like “b” at the start of words pay sounds like bay Step 11: T can sound like "d" at the start of words to sounds like do Step 12: ng can have an extra g or k sound thing sounds like think Step 12: Consonant Clusters can have sounds left off, or the same error patterns as above lived sounds like lift or live, want sounds like wan, words sounds like word or worts Step 13: /e/ “vowel ay” can sound like vowel eh /ɛ/ wait sounds like wet Step 14: /æ/ “vowel a” can sound like vowel ah /a/ cat sounds like cot Step 15: /a/ “vowel ah” can sound like vowel o /o/ not sounds like note Step 16: /ʊ/ “vowel U” can sound like vowel oo /u/ look sounds like Luke Step 17: /ə/ “vowel schwa” can sound like written letter rather than the American "uh" sound between sounds like bee-tween above sounds like ay-bove Step 18: G can sound like K at the ends of words pig sounds like pick Step 19: SH can sound like S at the start of words she sounds like see Step 20: J can sound like ch or zh at the ends of words ridge sounds like rich or rizh
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