Posted by: spreadlove June 20, 2009
Nepalese Accent !!!
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Its very much exciting and encouraging to learn that lots of native-nepali speakers are aware of the speech-faults we have. At least it gives them and all other serious readers to ponder about our common mistakes.

Ever wondered why  nepalese politicians remain silent or mute spectators in the international arena? They lack self confidence of expressing themselves becuase of the language problems they have. Its discouraging to accept that even vast majority of educated nepalese overlook this error.

Another serious speech mistake we tend to have is the difference between "bha" and "V". Anyone noticed it? like 'very' is spoken as "भेरी" instead of  "वेरी". Ask any nepalese to romanize "भिनाजु" , they'll quickly write 'Vinaju', instead of 'bhinaju'. Moreover "विचार" becomes "बिचार" in our everyday speech which is completely wrong. There are lots of other examples that could be explained here to suggest our language errors, specially spoken discipline. 

I was lucky to get exposure to my mistakes quite early and these days I dont have such problems. But initially when I was learning and practicing it and prompting my friends when they made mistake, they simply ridiculed me saying why you speaking like 'dhoti'. But now I have an edge over all of them who ridiculed me. I am good at pronuncing correctly and clearly, working on accent part but I am sure one fine day I'll acheieve that too. It took helluva years for me to make correct pronunciation a part of my habit. Its never too late. Believe me.

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