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Foreword to ESL Students

Why you should study English pronunciation

Pronunciation is definitely the biggest thing that people notice when you are speaking English.

When you meet a person, and you just say a sentence or two, do you think they will notice your poor vocabulary or bad grammar? Probably not. But they will notice if your pronunciation is good or bad. If your pronunciation is poor, they will immediately think about you as "the guy/girl who speaks bad English". Your pronunciation creates the first impression you make.

Good pronunciation should be one of the first things that you learn in English. You can live without advanced vocabulary – you can use simple words to say what you want to say. You can live without advanced grammar – you can use simple grammar structures instead. But there is no such thing as “simple pronunciation”. If you don't have good pronunciation, you have... bad pronunciation and native speakers will have problems understanding you! Besides, if you start teaching English to other people, you will automatically transfer to them your poor way of speaking, for which nobody will ever be grateful to you.

The accent that we concentrate on is the оnе that is recommended for foreign learners studying British English . It is most familiar as the accent used by most announcers and newsreaders on serious national and international BBC broadcasting channels. It has for a long time been identified by the name Received Pronunciation (usually abbreviated to its initials, RP). RP is a special accent - a regionally neutral accent that is used as a standard for broadcasting and some other kinds of public speaking. RP is widely used is the academic world, both in Britain and globally. Along with General American., it is the most common model accent in teaching English as a foreign language.

To underline the importance of good pronunciation the English phonetician H. Gleason notes that to speak any language a person must know nearly all the 100% of its phonology, while 50-90% of its grammar and only 1% of the vocabulary may be sufficient.

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