TM,

I agree with you point on ACCENT and PRONUNCIATION being two different animals. Majority of us seem to confuse bad pronunciation with bad accent and some of us even dare to confuse plain BAD English with Bad Accent. How many of you have heard a guy with  bad English saying his English is different because he learned British English and not American English.

I think the issues are Knowing the English first, then refining the pronunciation and then refining the Accent. I would like to define Accent as a Rhythm of the speaking English.

Although all of those three parts of a language is equally important to be effective communicator in any foreign language, i was always sort of annoyed with why us Nepalese were not taught the proper way of pronouncing the sounds that our language provided. It would have been one thing if our language had not held that sound at all but when it was available it still was not an issue for neither teachers or parents. I was always surprised why we never get to hear any voices, or articles on how we speak our own language.

My recent learnings are follows

Different sound between Reason/Region

Learning how to say Mediterranean. I was speaking it "mediterian" for long time.

I had School/Eskul thing down back in Nepal very young, i used to get bothered by that along with Brajesh/Barjesh, Pravesh/Parvesh,  Problem/Porblem


Nepali Texan,

You may be facing Rashwa Dirga issue with Bitch and Beach, This is how i remember those words, generally speaking a word with two vowels are Dirgha.



Sid