Let's be smart!

Obviously a man cannot be 'real smart' if he has problem of bad pronunciation, no matter how costly his dress might be! It's really beyond my understanding how far we can go if we cannot even pronounce a word correctly.

I've seen many educated people saying "ispirite"(sprite), "istupid" (stupid), ischool"(school). What the hell? Do we have any idea how odd this may sound? We tend to think that pronunciation does not matter, it's quite enough if we can only speak English. But unfortunately the truth is we cannot (or do not) even speak. Now don't ask about pronunciation. Tooba Arbab and Alvee were right; few people know the correct pronunciation and people with bad pronunciation can't get our attention. Actually, our problem is we don't want to solve our problems, moreover if anyone calls a spade a spade, we start criticising him/her.

The problems of accent and pronunciation are not the same. The Arabian and Indian accent can't be changed, no matter how hard you try. If you carefully listen to Indian accent you will see that "T","D" etc sound quiet harsh. And in Arabic or Spanish/Latin accent, you will hear "to" "do" instead of "T" and "D". People around the world have different accents, but that's not the point.

The problem begins when you don't utter a word correctly in correct form. We, the Bangladeshis, don't have that weird problem of accent. It's just that we need to be a little careful, especially when we speak in a public meeting or in the media. Practice is needed.

English will always remain a mere "foreign language" if we can't speak it correctly! If we have any limitation, we should not be ashamed of it. We should not have any problem with learning and gaining knowledge! Should we?