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Better Spoken English Prof. Shreesh Chaudhary Department of Humanities and Social sciences Indian Institute of Technology, Madras Lecture 32 Some Difficult Sounds in English Good morning. Good morning sir. OK, this, today, we speak about how human beings produce different speech sounds. Were you here yesterday? How many of you were here yesterday? Ok. Did you have difficulty understanding that but, when we speak another language, something other than our mother tongue, ok? Quite often though not always, you know, not with everyone, quite often we do not get all sounds all right. OK? There may be you know traditionally people have blamed your mother tongue, they say mother tongue influence. That is not the case. It s not that your mother tongue is preventing you from learning another language. Do you believe that? Because, you know, Telugu, does it say that you cannot learn English or cannot learn French or Latin? Do you believe that? Yes or no? No, it s not. It s only that your attention has not been drawn. You have not heard that sound or your attention has not been drawn to the way that sound is produced. Actually, if you look at it carefully there are three reasons why non-standard sounds get into our second language or our foreign language. (Refer Slide Time: 01:59) I ll you can take notes. These are the following; either because we use a different sound. English uses pa and we say ba. English uses sa or sha and we say something else. English uses sa and we say za or English uses za, we say sa. Ok? That may be one reason, you know. that we have some sound in each word. But, may be some times, we use different sounds, different from

what standard English uses. I ll give you examples in a few minutes or, or we use more sounds than required, than English does. Say, for example, if somebody asks you what does your mother do and you say she is a teacheroo. OK, then oo is an extra sound. last month we played that video - twinkle twinkle little star and the girl makes fun of Telangana accent of English. And she says, like a diamondooo, ok? that oo is extra or many of us in my part of the country, You know the place where Aman and I come from, we don t say station, we say estation. we say eschool we say esports; we add an extra e. OK? Lot of people do that in the south in some other positions. say for example, you know many of my friends say, don t go to film, go to fillim. they add an i between l and m. Or many of my friends in Hyderabad are not against Telangana but, they are againast Telangana. you add an extra sound. Or sometimes, you use fewer sounds. there should be ten sounds in the word; you use only nine or only eight. Then, you know, the word sounds different. it is difficult for you to, others to understand you. That s why I have said, what is a non standard sound? what is a non standard speech? that which impedes communication across regions. We have learnt English to speak not to our mothers or our brothers or our sisters. We have learnt to speak English to, so that we can speak to the rest of the world. And if you speak English in such a manner that only people from Nellore or Nalakonda can understand you. Only people from Hubli and Bellary can understand you, only people from Thrissur or Cochin can understand you, then your purpose is not fulfilled, ok? which means, you must acquire standard sounds, right? We will look at some examples of nonstandard sounds. So, in this case you know, when we say we use fewer sounds. lots of people in India, lots of people do not pronounce this word correctly. how should it be pronounced? government. But, many people take this away. They say gorment, gorment, Manmohan Singh gorment, Jayalalitha gorment. It s not gorment. what is it? Government Government, government main stress on gov, government. similarly, you know, take another word. how should it be pronounced? Available

Available but, lot of people pronounce it only as avlable. so you are using fewer sounds. so nonstandard speech, nonstandard sounds appear in your speech, No matter what language, if there is a nonstandard sound, it is because of these three reasons. what are they? either you are using a different sound or you are using more sounds then required or fewer, ok? Relax. sit back. I am going to give you some examples, and I am going to ask you to look at them, have fun, please don t laugh at others but, try and see why it is so and then change it. Is that ok? Shall we do that for the next 35, 40 minutes? are you comfortable? Ok? Right, please, let s look at this. (Refer Slide Time: 07:43) Many of us in India, you know, do not distinguish between short and long vowel sounds, such as, e, you know. English has two sounds in that place. One is short i as in bit or live and the other is long as e ok as in leave, bee. What is the speaker trying to say there? can you tell me? Aman, you come from Patna, what is the speaker trying to say there? it should be he lives in Patna. it should not be he leaves in Patna. Then you are confused. how can he leaves in Patna? you can say he leaves Patna. that means he doesn t like Patna. Every time, he goes there, he comes back to Chennai, ok? That will describe either me or Aman ok? but, when you say he leaves in, then you get, what you are trying to? The speaker there that the problem with this speaker is that he is unable to get it as short as it can be ok? It says, you know, English has this difference. some vowels are very short: live and the others are very long: leave. your lips have to spread. we will do some drill it. Go to the next part of the sentence, can you rewrite the sentence or you do not have to rewrite it. can you speak it with proper stress, proper pronunciation? he lives in Patna and? Never takes pills Pills, what is spelling of pills here? p i l l s or p i double l s, pills without breakfast why? It can fill your stomach with gas. It can fill your stomach with gas. Ok? you know, we ll look at some more examples later. Similar thing, you know, English has lots of pairs of long and short vowels. e ee, a ae, o woo. We also have some but, you know, not as exaggerated as English has. So, look at this case for example

what is, what do you think the reader, the speaker is trying to say there? It s not let, what is it? It should be late. what should it be? Late Yeah, then next part of, rest of the sentence. We cannot keep our guests waiting. When you give them a date, then you must keep it. Further. Go on. Is it correct? the word debt? is it correct? what is the, what is the speaker trying? what what does this speaker intend to say? Date Date ok. what is the spelling of the word, date? d a t e but, if you pronounce it quickly it sounds like debt, then your listener is confused. So, can somebody please read that entire sentence aloud with proper pronunciation? ok Kalpesh, can you do that? or Rohan can you do it? Do not get late any way, we cannot keep our guests waiting. when you give them a date, then you must keep it. Yes you must keep it, you must keep your time, ok? Look at the next, you know this is a and aa. English has huge difference between. can you read that sentence aloud? somebody please? somebody else please? can you do that? yeah. Democracy is a form of government for the people. But my driver is always applying for leave. Yet no one knows how far a good act can go. Yes you know many of us in India do not distinguish between for and far. in places like UP eastern, UP between Lucknow and Varanasi, lot of people pronounce f o r as f a r. But, down south in Tirunelvelli, Salem, central Tamil Nadu, southern Tamil Nadu, parts of Kerala, Andhra, they pronounce far as for. We are going to, you know, the boy will go very for. It s not very for. the boy will go very far. Ok? But, in Varnasi they should die far your country, not die far your

country, die for your country, ok? these length differences are very crucial to English. look at the next. How should it be? He does not leave home My friends in the last bench, Kartick, come, read the last sentence. He He does not leave home without bed tea, but if he is late, he calls a taxi. Should it be bad tea? bed tea. he does not leave home without bed tea; go on. but if he is late, if he is late he calls a taxi But, many people pronounce taxi as take see. you know, particularly in western India, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Punjab, you know, they don t say taxi, they say texi, ok? Each region has its peculiarity. if Englishmen were to do our language, you know, and they have done it, they are atrocious. in Hindi they would could not say tum, they say tom, ok? They could not say maangtha hai, they said maangta hai and you know the great Himalayas, they pronounce it as Him-laya. I feel like killing them when they say Him-laya, you know, or Ganga, they could not ganga, they made it Ganges. What kind of name is that? you know, I have a colleague here, my, you know, she is a professor in my department, Deviki Reddy. And we had a German visitor recently, he kept calling her Deevaki. And we have got another colleague now Upasana and there is another European guy, he always calls her Upsana. We make, the point I am making is, it s not unusual. you don t have to feel ashamed of yourself. there is no value addition to it. there is no attitude problem, ok? It happens. It s natural when we learn. English is not my mother tongue, is it your mother tongue? It s not.

We have not learnt it from my, our mothers or our fathers, or our grand parents. we have learnt it in school, from books, from television. And it is possible that sometimes we do not get all the sounds right. In such situation, we should see how I should speak. how should my lips and tongue move so that I get it right. the attitude should not be let it go, it is not my mother tongue, how do I care? No. if something is worth doing, it is worth doing, complete the sentence please. If something is worth doing, it is worth doing well. Right? Otherwise, don t do it, ok? If if you do something, if you cook, if you go to fetch water for somebody, if you polish somebody s boots, then polish it such that you are the best boot polisher, ok? Something is worth doing, it is worth doing well. do you agree? Right? Ajay? Sure? you look like wonder struck. Right. so the same way ok? So take care of the, I am not telling you that all of us do these things, but all of us, I am not telling you that all of us have these things but all of has one of these things. am I right? We may not have all of this but, we may have one of this. do you agree? what is that, we have to find and then we have make changes accordingly. look at some others, ok? On the other, just as some people make it short, late is pronounced as let. Some people pronounce let as late. they don t say, let him come in, they say, late him come in. I thought he is going to dead. Late, you know, how can late him come back, ok? But some people, you know, India is vast country, or English you know, is spoken all over the world but all over the world, it is spoken differently. On the fourth, if you like, can I show you a documentary on different accents of English in the world? shall we do that, ok? Nothing. just come in and have fun. Actually I wanted to show you one or two films but, may be we could that in HSB, the studio is not free. Kiran, where are you? Can you give me some time outside, may be during the long weekend or some such thing, you know, let s have some fun. But I can show you some documentary on different pronunciations of English world wide. So just as some people pronounce a long sound short, late becomes let. Similarly, some people pronounce short sounds long, ok? they pronounce latterly. look at in this case. what is the speaker trying to say? Please read it to me. They first met at a cinema hall,

Yeah now, mate has a very different meaning. It s animals mate in the jungle, ok, before they produce children. Ok? they don t have boring things like marriage, ok? ok. (Refer Slide Time: 18:29) And then, you know, they have this. they first met at a cinema hall. ok Next. complete the sentence please. and then they planned a getaway Get away they planned a is it a gate-away or Get away? what should it be? Get away. You know the stress is on way. get away. next sentence, but in Chennai? get-togethers are more popular. You know you keep having school get together. IIT always does at least three or four alumni get togethers, because they, alumni, bring money, of course, ok? So, you know we always have lots of get togethers but many people pronounce get together as gate together. you know gate is another matter. Look at the next sentence u and ooo. can somebody please read it aloud as it ought to be read? first read it. ok Kiran you can do it, first read it as it is written. Time on face book these days Yeah some people you know make it long. They say, face boook ok. In no time, they learn how to use Yeah it should be use, but they say yus. it as a tool.

You know, as a tull. it should be tool. Correct. go on. Actually, they even ignore their look. Few colleges in India have a swimming pool, but they all have computers and a chat room. Ok, it should be swimming pool, it should be room, etc you know, just a little, when you speak slow, you make a guarantee, that you will not only get your contents right, You guarantee that you will get the pronunciation right as well. Imagine, you know, only five years later, not too far from, not much farther from now, you are in second year, by the time you graduate And within a year or two, you will be making presentations to a hall full of people like this. And there everything must go perfectly, the contents, the pronunciation, the dress, the smile on your face, the confidence, ok? Excellence, as somebody said, is a product of attention to details, ok? Excellence is nothing else. excellence is not, you know, prayer to God. Of course, if God is you know, if you believe in that as I do, you know, then if God is happy, anything can happen. But, God won t be happy without thapasya. have you heard of the word thapasya? Have you, yes or no, what is thapasya? Fear, you know, sleep or hunger. Others, may be, you know, fairies may be dancing or angels may be dancing but you are engaged in your work. that is thapasya. So, if you pay that kind of attention, you can do anything you like. you are gods, you know, that s what all the great people have said. (Refer Slide Time: 21:41) Look at some more. Let s have some entertainment, ok? Can, who will read it aloud? First, as it is written, then with correction, please. Children bring note book to the class, Ok, you know, which part of the country, people speak notebook as not book ok? We are very fond of making fun of the others, you know. Lots of my south Indian friends make fun of the Malayalies, ok? why did a Malayali not go to school? Simbly! Ok, but all of us have it. all of us have some problem, ok? all of, you know, ok, where does he want to work? he wants to work in the gelf, ok? But, all of, you know, the point I am making is

please laugh at others if that gives you fun but, also laugh at yourself. Correct? Ok? can you, Irfan, read it the way Malayalis read it? are you good at laughing at yourself? you don t mind, right? Ok, read it. Notebook to the class but, do not use it Ok the problem with, you know, many Malayali speakers is the interchange. they pronounce n o t as n o t e and n o t e as n o t. So, what should be notebook becomes not book and what should be not becomes note, ok? but once you pay attention, move your tongue accordingly, open your mouth accordingly and you take care of it. Irfan, go on. Many people die on rods in India. What should it be? roads Roads in India. Ok, go on. They should be careful. ok Rich People now use rods in their homes Actually it should be rods. you know, because concrete houses require iron rods, ok? They take cock What should it be? It should be coke, ok, yeah. When it is hote Go on But, when it is called But, when it is called

They take mor of it Yeah They go to a costal town That should be coastal. you know, Irfan is doing it correctly, actually. you know, ok, go on, please. Coastal town during winter vacation, when it is costly Yeah, many, many people in Kerala pronounce it as coastly. it s not coastly. it is costly. but, remember all of us have our own peculiarities? do you agree? Ok, go on, Irfan. Poor do not mind going for, going for or working at (Refer Slide Time: 24:42) Ok leave it there. Let s go to the next. another part of the country, ok? confusion between a and ae. ok please, who will read it? who will? Ok, why not you? please. Laziness kills more people than do bed habits Yeah it should be, bad habits. Bad habits They climb up and down by lift, go in and out by car or take see What should it be? Taxi Taxi Use trolley to kerry What should it be?

Carry Carry use trolley to carry shopping bag, Yeah, it should be bag but they say beg, ok. And then? Canedi What should it be? Candy What should it be? Candy ice cream, chocolate, their snakes What should it be? Snacks Snacks are also kelory rich Yeah, it should be calorie rich. so they become fate. so they become fat. Ok, right. (Refer Slide Time: 26:00) Next, you know, for many of us, we, so far we looked at only vowels but now I am asking you to look at consonants, ok? sounds that are produced with obstruction. You know, in our alphabet, we first have a, aa, e, ee and then we have ka khaa right? So, ka khaa is consonant, a aa is

vowels. we also have peculiarities of consonant sounds, say, my part of the country for instance. You know I think I have been telling you that, until I became about 25 or 26, I went to study in Hyderabad, I spoke, Actually, I aspoke good Englis, I didn t speak English and my friends in Hyderabad started making fun of me. I said, don t make fun of me! Because I can also then tell you about your Hyderabadu and teacheru and you know all of us have that kind of kind of thing. in Bihar in Eastern U P, in Orissa, in Assam, in Nepal in, we don t speak English, sorry, we don t speak English, we speak Englis, ok? We take a sip of tea and we go by sip. we don t go by ship, ok? we stand in the queue for rasion cards not for ration cards ok. Actually, if you do too much Sa, sha in Patna, they will tell you what are you hissing like a snake ok? speak like normal human beings. But, on the other hand if you go to Bengal everything there is in the morning they take a ship of tea, you know, yeah, right, you know, it is a rashagulla is not rasagulla. And there is shtill, every, you know, just all of us do not have all the sounds like the British do not have our th tha they cannot, th they cannot say thum, they say TU, ok. Because, they have do not have a th. it is not that they cannot learn. Many, actually, you know, pay compliment to the British. all the grammar of all the modern Indian languages, are you with me? everybody please? Yes sir. You know, you must acknowledge, the British were not one nation, you know, they keep all kinds, the absolutely terrible British, You know killed, murdered, raped, helpless women and there were also angels, who gave everything away to the poor, the helpless, the destitute. They did some wonderful work in this country, otherwise oppressed by systems of caste, class, taboos, they brought hospitals, colleges, education, opened the gates to everyone, they said even Harijan could come, women could come, ok? They wrote the first grammars of all Indian modern Indian languages - Telugu, Tamil, Hindi, Mythili, Gujrathi, Kashmiri, Bengali, no matter what. they wrote it first. So next time you hear somebody say, ah! the British were this, that, take it with not just a pinch of salt, take it with a spoon full of salt, ok?

Because they were all kinds. it is only as good as saying that all all, you know, malayalis are bad speakers of English. not the case. they are fantastic, you know. some of the, at least I have studied with five of them. five of my teachers were from Kerala And I will say two of them, were better than any teacher I have studied under elsewhere in the world. you know, I have also had the good luck to study in some other universities. So no such generalizations. keep it in mind but, yes, there are peculiarities. So let s overcome those peculiarities. can somebody please read this sentence aloud, some body not from Bihar or Bengal? anybody from Bengal here? No. anybody who knows Bengali? ok. Don t worry. It s a great language, you know, great literature, great music, ok? can somebody please read it? ok Ashwini, can you try this sentence? In Patna, one can take a sip of tea, and can take tea on a sip. Should it be sip or ship? Ship Yeah, right, go on. But in Kolkata it is the other way round. You can begin the day with a ship of tea, It should be sip of tea. Correct. And? and end it with tea on the ship. That is correct. Tea companies did good business in Kolkata, one can Yeah it should be still, not shtill, ok? shtill shee their godowns here. It should be see, not shee. See their godowns, godowns here. Ok? Let s look at another instance. pan Indian problem including you and me.

(Refer Slide Time: 31:24) We don t get these, you know, these sounds right. this w and this, particularly this. many people, you see, we in Bihar, Bengal, Orissa, Assam, Nepal, much of, you know, Punjab etc. We pronounce it as bh. We say bherry good, sebhen, bhowel, bhast. India is a bhast country. Ok, right, but here in the south, India is a wast country. sometimes I think, are they saying, waste country, ok? it is it is neither wast nor bhast. what is it? it is vvvv. let your lower lip. In the final, the fourth presentation, I am going to listen to each number. if you say fie, you lose marks. if you say fibhe, you lose marks. It should be five. V, ok. I am going to listen for that. And in all cases of doubt, my friends are recording you. I will go back to the recording. Do you see the point? So, get into it and remember you are not doing it for one presentation here. you are acquiring a skill, which will be useful to you not only for your life, your generations to come. When you speak good language, your children, your grand children, you know, your relatives children also speak good language. you become a model to the others. Amn t I right? When one person comes from your family to IIT, in that street in Hyderabad, I have seen, they put up a sign board saying in this street lives some student from i i t j e e or something. is that correct? Yes or no? nobody from Hyderabad here? ok. Don t they put up such signs in Mehdipatnam, Banjara Hills, etc? I haven t seen, Sir. may be I am exaggerating it slightly, but you see, you know, good, good, you know, achievement has impact. Correct? Don t people come and ask you, how to prepare for IIT? they do. Similarly, they will ask you how to speak English correctly, right? Won t they? So, you know acquire that. can somebody please read it aloud? somebody from the central row, you know, you have been sitting comfortably enjoying like a comedy on the t v. please. Ok, come on. India has a president and a wise president. What should it be? Vice president

Vice president ok go on Latter of course Later, later, otherwise latter is l a t t e r. Latter, of course, is wise; he goes to a talking club during day time, and watches werbal dual What should it be? verbal It should be Verbal, yes. Duel? through the day, ewen wen wery bored. OK, I want to make a point here. you know, please take your note book. (Refer Slide Time: 34:41) How do you pronounce this word? What. This is not pronounced. in India, all of us pronounce it as, as this, as hwat, hwen, which. It s not so. It s without this. So, what is this? What. this is? What. what is this? what is this? When. what is this? Which. what is this? Why And what is this? Who Who, this is who, this is not woo. Ok? This is who. So this is an exception. But here, what is this? What. round your lips and say what. what is this?

What, when, which, why, where Where Where It s not very long. It s not where. It is where. Where. Once again, what is this? What, when, which, why, where But, this is? Who Once again, make it long. this is? What, when, which This is long Why Great, this is Where Short, ok? this distinction is very important, in English. Ok, please, continue reading this sentence. Latter, of course, is wise. come again, please. Latter, of course, is wise; he goes to a talking club during day time, and watches verbal duel through the day, even when very bored. even when very bored, ok? right. (Refer Slide Time: 36:47) Let s look at some other confusions, ok. Some, who will do it? why don t you? you know, you are having fun, please.

Aparna, would you like to do it? Ok, please, can you stand up so that camera can catch you? please. But the president is luckier. He receives Yeah, vvv. visiting yeah dignitaries, himself visits other countries, awards yeah, awards, ww round your lips, awards. awards prizes and medals, Views, vvv. Views parades of armed forces, and, only once a year, he visits talking shop and gives other members there Other members there Other members there a Vision. It is zhh.. Pronounce this word right. Aparna, just wait there. Keep standing. Vision, zhh. vision Yes, like you say, shhh similarly it is zhh, vision, yes. Ok, go on, vision for? Vision for the ear It should not be ear. It should be y e a r, how do you pronounce it? Year. It should be year, get y as in yes and then say year. spread your lips. Year. Don t you see the British have their lips going from here to here? like this. ok, now say year but many of us in

India pronounce it as ear. This is my first ear. is it your first ear? are you in the second ear? what is the correct word? So, I am in the second year. Ok, Aparna, continue. For which he for which he thanked He is thanked He is thanked Vigorous, vi. He approves (apprubhs) decisions already taken by the others and, thus, And thus And thus saves himself from controversy. Ok, right, you see. this is this is a consonant. you know, this is a pan Indian problem. this sound. Vv. We, no Indian language has that. We either have w or bh and we, without paying attention, we keep talking about wery great responsibilities or in my part of the country, bhery great responsibilities. pay attention, you know. excellence is nothing, as I told you earlier, but attention to details. please sit down, Aparna. thank you very much. Ok, who will do it next? OK, why don t you do it from Həidrabadu, yeah? (Refer Slide Time: 40:04) Hyderabad was known for its dəimondu Diamond, you know, di is very long. It s not diamond, you know, it is diamond. what is it? Diamond Yeah go on please diamond and biriyani, but now it has become the səiberu city. Cyber city

People have come here from far and wəidu Yah, it should be: far and wide. the city works day and nəitu, It should be night. and it is no longer a təiny provincial townu. Yeah, it is no longer provincial town. Ok? Right. (Refer Slide Time: 41:04) Look at this. what we do is some times we put extra sounds, more than really necessary, you know, more than really necessary, and the wonderful thing is we do not notice it in ourselves. we are not aware of our own peculiarity. we are always, you know, this is, this is human nature. we are always good at finding fault in the others. Isn t that right? You know, you are so acutely aware of problems in the other hostel, how other people misbehave, how other people dirty the road, how other people do not do their work. You know, we are seldom aware of our own inaccuracies, our own inadequacy. You know, so some years ago, I was working in Simla for about, can I tell you this story, ok? for about 2 years, I was in Punjab. Simla, you know, Simla was part of Punjab. When India was together - India, Pakistan, Bangladesh were together, then Lahore was the capital of Punjab and Simla was the summer capital of Punjab. Largely Punjabi speaking people who surround that area and, you know, their culture is Punjabi culture. So, recently when I was there, there were some cockroaches and other things in the quarters I was allotted. you know, there is a Rastrapathi nivas there. The Viceroy used to live there, it was called Vice Regal lodge. But when Radhakrishnan became the president of India he, you know, after independence the vice Regal lodge became Rastrapathi nivas and when Radhakrishnan became the president of India, he gave it to the professors of this country.

Now, there is an institute there. It s called Indian Institute of Advanced study, senior professors are invited to live there for a year or two and have fun. You don t have to teach classes, you can bring your wife or you know other friends, if you like. you are given quarters, your full salary, TA and no work. If you, before you leave, if you feel like, give them a book or a lecture or you don t. this is an American concept. in America, all the big universities have institutes of advanced study, ok? they do a good job there. Radhakrishnan had thought that Indian professors would also, like Americans, do some good job. Here, of course, we enjoy ourselves like Americans but work like Indians. You know, we live there, come back, at the end of the day, we tell them, when I go back to Madras, I will write and send it to you. And we never send it from Madras but you know, regardless of that, it s a great place, at least a great library, lots of journals, lots of books in humanities and social sciences. And in the height of 7000 feet, where Viceroy lived, you know, you have all the comfort, all the creature comfort and wonderful view of the Himalayas, so you live there. So in the quarters, they gave me, there were cockroaches. so I asked the state officer, what can I do? he told me, why don t you go to the market and buy a saprey machine? what is a saprey machine? what is a saprey machine? I didn t know. I said, come on, what? What? he said saprey machine sir. Ok? saprey machine will, you just saprey it. then I said, oh god, you mean spray, because, you know, I myself say aspray when I go home, you know, add an e before s p. But, in the north west, they add an e between s and p, not before. now look at this here. in Punjab, who will like it read it aloud? Ok. In Punjab, many people support səport, Yeah, they don t pronounce s p o r t as sport. They pronounce it as support. Ok? so there you know you have, it s not Shakespeare, it is shake-us-peare. Ok, go on. but in Bihar, it is not on the same escale. What should it be? Same scale, yeah Here we have some esports in ischool, It should be here we have?

Some sports in school Some sports in school, Go on. but hardly any in college. In the past, it has seen wide-espread violence. What should it be? Wide spread Wide spread, wide spread violence South Indians are totally against waiolence Yeah, it should be violence, yeah, but but there pilims have lots of it You know there is no south Indian film which does not show you at least two hundred murders, ok, the village is wiped out. in Bihar we do not see it in film, we actually do it. we kill one another, ok? You know, once again, you see, what we are doing is, we are adding more sounds: film becomes pilim, against becomes against, sports become either support or esport. you have to ask yourself. (Refer Slide Time: 46:47) Where is it I have nonstandard pronunciation? Ok, last. who will like to read it? somebody who hasn t and wants to do it? Ok, right, please. Mr Pillay missed obis today. What should it be? Office Office, yes "Simbly", simbly

he says. His unglə came from What should it be? Uncle What should it be? Uncle. Yeah, don t say Uncal. Don t bring ah there. C and l are together. what is it? Uncle. Yeah, ok go on please. Chenganacherri last night. Yeah, there is a district called Chenganacherri, isn t it? how far is it from your village, Irfan, you don t know, do you? ok your geography is bad. Ok, please go on. Mr. Pillay will take him Mr. Pillay may take him Sorry it should be may. I am, I made a mistake in editing. ok to see some tembals What is intended? Temples What is intended? Temples ok Hwen goad is habby Yeah, but they pronounce goad, ok? Anything can habben. he also wants a job in gelf, actually thuupai Dubai Dubai

He generally goes by bes, but today he is pissi and iss taking a taxi. Before starting, he makes sure that meder comes to sero. Ok sorry, you know, I am making fun of anyone. I am actually not make, you know, what I want you to do is? look at, you know, can we be serious for a few seconds? Look at your own pronunciation of English and see, do you have nonstandard sounds? If you have then, it s very simple. ask yourself how I pronounce it and change the pronunciation by manipulating organs of articulation. It s extremely simple. learning another language is the easiest thing you can do provided two things: number 1, you are determined and you pay attention, do you have any questions? thank you. have a good day!