Hi, I agree with you that we need to get used to their accent when we have to deal with them everyday. Yet, tobe honest, I don't like Indian English accent as it's far different from original English dispite the fact that most indians can speak and write English quite influently. I know that there're a lot of indians in our group, and I'm sorry for saying like that but it's my real feeling. It's just like in our own country, many people use a Vietnamese-English language which means they use English in a Vietnamese way of thinking and pronouncing. This circumstance is very common and understandable in many countries, especially in areas where there's no way to approach a standard English. My English teacher told me that learning English is a process of absorbing that language and imitating what native speaker say or write. We can compose our own sentences by using grammar structures and your vocabulary, however in most cases these sentences are inappropriate if they are made for the first time. Learning the meaning in your own language of some words is not so difficult, yet using vocabulary correctly in an appropriately way is far more complicated. That's the reason why language learners often get confused when they reach a certain range of vocabulary as they have many alternatives which are rather similar in meaning for a word. In this case, they need to distinguish clearly the meaning and usage of these words. There's a rather good way to check if we're using a word correctly that is to use Oxford collocation dictionary, which is mentioned some times earlier in our group. When using collocations in this dictionary, we no longer be worried about either their correctness or appropriateness. Otherwise we should ask native speakers for the correctness and appropriateness of these sentences. I think this approach is logical as it just like the way a child learns their own mother language, the form seems to be a bit different but the content, the nature is the same. ^_^ Each person has their own way of study, however, I think, this approach can help us to build up a correct method of learning. Do you agree with me? If not, please give us your thoughts ^_^
Apart from the accent I really enjoy the way indians speak English as they can speak English steadily and appropriately. I highly appreciate that. ^_^ Regards, NgoNam ----- Original Message ----- From: Rafael Oshiro To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2009 3:59 AM Subject: [ESL Podcast] Re: Trouble understanding Indian English I agree with Ed, it's needed to be exposed to such situations to get along with it. In my opinion, as soon as you are from IT area, you could check some podcasts about technology, hosted by Indians, as it's very common in IT. I work with technology too, and I've heard some podcasts with Indians and other native English speakers. I think it helped me improving a little. I have to keep doing it as often as I can. That is my 2 cents :) Have a good day Oshiro On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 11:10 PM, Eduardo Costa <[email protected]> wrote: Dinu, I can´t see other way to understand an english accent without to be explosed to it, try to keep contact with other indians over the internet, maybe it can help you. You can try to use softwares like skype or join in a virtual communitie. Take a look on "Virtual communities" sections of this web link http://share.foxmarks.com/folder/bookmarks/xxQFLLkoQu Good luck Ed. On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 21:58, Dino Hsu <[email protected]> wrote: I will have to work with many Indian collegues globally and I have trouble understanding their English. I think I have been listening to CNN and BBC too much, and I was seldom exposed to other accents such as Indian's. Your comments are highly appreciated. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ESL Podcast". To post to this group, send email to: [email protected] or just reply this message For invite your friends, visit: http://groups.google.com/group/eslpodcast/members_invite Know how help us, visit this FAQ at: http://groups.google.com/group/eslpodcast/web/frequently-asked-questions -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
