If you talk to american tourist. they will tell you. its so hard for them to understand indian accent when they have to call indian call center. the reason is simple. indian dont practice to speak slowly, and in dilect so that westerner can understand. thats major reason why call centr jobs are going away from india. we think we speak very clearly. but how much other person understand. thats the real issue. they should ask american trainers. otherwise keep living in fools dream. we are best speaker of english.
Re: The most pathetic mistake.
by bihari babu on Dec 03, 2011 01:28 PM
and who cares about correct grammer? no body. even american themselve dont speak correct english. the purpose of language is to communicate with each other thats all. grammer and big words are useless.
Re: The most pathetic mistake.
by Swaminathan Appachi on Dec 03, 2011 01:40 PM
This is not the problem specific to US. We Indian speak English very fluently and we everyone understand that in India. But people outside in India, whether it is US, Europe or West Asia, they are not fluent in English and they think and speak each work. I have the same problem in Saudi also. So, the problem is not with us, the problem is also on the otherside.
Re: The most pathetic mistake.
by kiran kumar on Dec 03, 2011 01:48 PM
More than the speed, native English speakers stress on consonents like B, D, P, T etc they dont have the soft and hard versions of these letters as they exist in Indian languages. A simple word 'Pal' would be pronounced as 'Phan'.
This simple adjustment takes the understandability a long way, because the stressing automatically slows down the speed of speech.
R at the end of the word is not explicitly pronounced like 'under' actually is pronounced as 'anda', the way Indians pronounce it, they hear is as 'andarr'.
Re: Re: How I faired in this test?
by gundu on Dec 03, 2011 01:43 PM
okay friends, in a hurry I made a mistake. It should be fared. This also come under common mistake.
Re: Re: Re: How I faired in this test?
by gundu on Dec 03, 2011 02:59 PM
By the way I am Marathi manoos studied through Marathi medium. You take the above 3 tests and write the score honestly. Then you will come to know your vocabulary.
Re: Unbelieavable
by raghavadesikan on Dec 03, 2011 09:34 AM
People who studied through their mother tongue in school days suffer from these mistakes...
These are ridiculously silly mistakes. Some more as in following ads: " Two wheelar parking" and "Dealers of propertise". These make you feel ashamed not as much for not knowing the foreign language but for the lack of effort in finding out the correct spellings before advertising in a public domain.
Like it or not,Indian spoken English messes up a lots of words,forget about grammar.I think Indian English accent should be abolished.Ever wondered why call centers go through accent training?Thats the reason,Indian accent su(ks.
no offense.. but these guys never use preposition, bcos they literally translate their mother tongue into words of english without knowing the grammar which goes with that!!
Re: 11. The doctor will be back at noon. Incorrect
by Guenther Eismacher on Dec 02, 2011 10:00 PM
preposition for time can be any by, at, in ,on , after ago, between, during, from, for, untill, to, up to , within etc depending on the usage or intention. at is used when it is part of the day of time of the day. eg.at night at 6 o'clock; at midnight. by means not later than a special time e.g. by Thursday , by noon, by 10 oclock
Re: 11. The doctor will be back at noon. Incorrect
by Saravanan Subramanian on Dec 02, 2011 10:39 PM
"at" should be used if you specify the precise time when an event happens - at noon means the event occurs or expected to occur exactly at 12:00PM. "by" is used for approximation - by noon can be 11:45 AM or 12:10 PM ...
