Pronunciation & grammar2 min read
Eight English pronunciation mistakes Malayalam speakers make
Most accent features are harmless. About eight are not, because they turn one English word into a different one. These are the eight worth your time.
English pronunciation and grammar for Malayalam speakers
The specific sounds, stress patterns and grammar habits that mark a Malayalam speaker in English — and the drills that fix each one.
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Pronunciation & grammar2 min read
Word stress: the English mistake that causes the most confusion
You can mispronounce several sounds in a word and still be understood. Move the stress one syllable and the word often stops registering at all.
Pronunciation & grammar3 min read
The schwa: the most common sound in English, and the one nobody teaches
English spelling shows you five vowels. Spoken English collapses most of them, in unstressed syllables, into one — and pronouncing them fully is what makes careful English sound wrong.
Pronunciation & grammar2 min read
Ten English grammar mistakes almost every Malayalam speaker makes
These mistakes are shared by millions of speakers because they have a shared cause. Each one is a place where Malayalam grammar and English grammar genuinely disagree.
Pronunciation & grammar2 min read
A, an and the: the one English rule Malayalam gives you no help with
Articles feel arbitrary because your first language has none to map them onto. They are not arbitrary — but the rule is about the listener, not about the noun.