Non-native pronunciations of English: Difference between revisions

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Non-native speakers of the [[English language]] tend to carry the [[intonation]], [[accent]] or [[pronunciation]] from their mother tongue into their English speech. (The language spoken by a person before their [[second language|L2]] has reached the stage of native speaker or near-native speaker competence is known as an [[interlanguage]].)

[[Grammar]] differences (e.g. the lack or surplus of [[grammatical tense|tense]], [[grammatical number|number]], [[grammatical gender|gender]] etc.) in different [[languages]] often lead to grammatical mistakes that are tell-tale signs of the origin. Sometimes non-verbal [[body language]] also gives away the origin of the speaker.