Pronunciation is not like the other skills. It strikes the listener directly in the face the ears, to be more precise. How good your pronunciation is in general can be judged very quickly and an opinion is formed automatically by anyone who hears you. I guess this is similar to writing and handwriting at least back in the days before computers were used.
I think people in general tend to underestimate people who have bad pronunciation and overestimate people who have good pronunciation according to the argument above. For instance, take a few moments to think about immigrants in your have met in your own country who speak a broken version of your native language.
After publishing this article, Scott Burgan pointed out to me on Facebook that there is another advantage of having good pronunciation, namely that it helps you win the language struggle.
A single sentence pronounced well and at a natural pace will convince most people that they can converse with you only in Chinese instead of insisting on English.
So, pronunciation does matter and that it matters regardless if you care or not. Since this can be very important both in a private, social situation and in a professional or business situation, focusing more on pronunciation is usually a good idea. Simply put, people stop caring about pronunciation too early rather than too late.
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This happens with vocabulary all the time. You hear a word for the first time you think , learn it and suddenly hear it everywhere! Returning to review of pronunciation for some period on an annual basis is a very good thing. I found a lot of new learners of Chinese in Taiwan like to talk fast when in doubt about their pronunciation and hope that the listen will pick up the meaning from the context. Pronunciation is vital to proper communication because the incorrect use of pronunciation inevitably leads to the message being misunderstood by the recipient.
Pronunciation of the letter sounds in words as well as syllable emphasis on parts of words will more often than not change the words meaning and context drastically thereby irreversibly altering the meaning of the sentence being communicated.
A good example of this is the word present. Another important aspect is, the proper use of English pronunciation inclines to highlight and add value to an individual speaking English.
Before the class started, the teacher said to us: "So, do you speak good English? Tom replied "We think so", and the guy said "It sure sounds like you do". Notice that we just said three words, and the teacher could already tell if our English was good or bad. Why did the teacher think our English was good? Because of the difficult words we used? Because we used advanced grammar structures? It was our pronunciation. Why you people went to a conversation and why teacher was ready to teach you English.
If that tom was your, how was your pronunciation nice and impressive to that native teacher. Even your first language is polish and ofcourse at that time you had a strong impact of your polish dialect. If we learn pronunciation of each or every word and pronounce it accordingly. Is it possible our accent will be similar to britons or Americans. Will we have reduced a taste of our own native language.? Is it easy to judge whether this person has first language as polish or English. The class was free, too.
A few days ago I read a message making the same point in a forum about software development. I'll quote it here: "A person who masters a foreign language but has a strong accent is perceived as non-fluent.
A person who has a perfect pronunciation but has only a limited vocabulary is perceived as being much further along in learning the language. When that class took place, my English was basically as good as it is now. What is the importance of learning pronunciation in order to have foriegn dialects?
Specifically, I don't understand your usage of the words "taste" and "foreign dialects".
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