It is widely known that English is an international language, which is primarily used in science, medicine, law, commerce, education and so on. Therefore, English proficiency is mandatory for students and professionals to progress in their career.
One of the biggest challenges for non-native speakers of English is mastering irregular spelling patterns and pronunciations in English. There is no correspondence between spelling and pronunciation in the English language. In other words, English pronunciation is different from its spelling. For instance, the word “knowledge” contains nine letters but it contains only five sounds, namely, “n”, “o”, “l”, “e”, “g”. The letters “k”, “w”, “d”, “e” are not pronounced.
Whereas,
Tamil is grammatical and phonetic language, because there is no such a confusion
in Tamil, in terms of spelling and pronunciation. For instance, the word arivu
(knowledge) contains three letters with three different sounds: “a”, “ri”,
“vu” are pronounced separately. Moreover, in English one letter is pronounced
differently according to the contexts, unlike Tamil. A few varieties of letters
and their pronunciation are listed as follows:
Apple - as in ‘cap’
Ate - as in ‘pay’
Cat - as in ‘carrot’
Bat - as in ‘buy’
Bomb - as in ‘comb’
Bus - as in ‘us’
Bush - as in ‘push’
Busy - as in ‘taxi’
Car - as in ‘college’
Chat - as in ‘chair’
Cement- as in ‘sit’
Girls - as in ‘go’
Ginger - as in ‘jeep’
Happy - as in ‘hat’
Honour- as in ‘on’
Rough - as in ‘cough’
List - as in ‘lid’
Light - as in ‘flight’
Bird - as in ‘birth’
Onion - as in ‘under’
Office -as in ‘go’
It is these complex spelling and sound systems
become a massive obstacle for every non-native speaker of English in learning
English at initial stage. Hence, it is imperative for the non-native speakers to
learn and conceive the differences in the spelling and pronunciations of words
in English to be proficient in the English language.
Author:
K.
Nandhakumar
Assistant
Professor of English
Sri
Ramakrishna Mission Vidyalaya College of Arts and Science (Autonomous)
Coimbatore-
641 020
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