The English Language Training Institute (ELTI) in Calcutta is working to correct the English pronunciation of 60 schoolteachers in their two-day workshops.
One of the teachers had it right when he said: “We are habituated to speak in a certain way. We have to first unlearn what we know and then relearn the words afresh again.”
The teachers are learning to pronounce sounds such as /zh/ sound and they are learning which letters are silent in spoken English such as the /h/ sound in the words herb and honest.
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