Have you feel like being devastated with your pronunciation?
Since grade school I’ve always been regarded by my teachers
to be a vague speaker of the class. I talk
fast and sometimes I tend to swallow some words. In the long run, I learned
that talking fast is not impressive in speaking the English language although
some rapper at hearts do. But I think it’s quite too late to change it because
I’ve already made it permanent.
I graduated in College with a Course about English
Communication but here I am struggling to find a Job that suits my degree in
order also not to elevate the rate of underemployment in the country. I
acknowledge the fact that being in a call center industry which I tried to
apply with requires you to be proficient enough in English. I’m almost there to
be honest. I possessed all the good qualities for the career but apparently betrayed
and halted because of the way I pronounce and deliver my words. I acknowledge
the fact that this career suits me best
if only I don’t have this trouble. Some agrees that I have an Americanized
accent, Some says it’s an aussie accent but whatever they are figuring out,
both are falsehood. I just speak the way I am comfortable and grown with.
Typically, I have pronunciation problem but day after day
since I graduated last May, I have been
improving as what I have projected in my recordings. The only problem now is
that I don’t have a speech therapist. I badly need it for the upcoming
interview. I just sense that if I’m not going to make it in this job, I’ll end
up losing my confidence and so on.
I consider also that I have speech defect but how I could
improve this if they keep telling me without further support? Self-practice is
even critical because I tend to become bias in no way or the other.
I can still remember the interviewers applaud my wit with
how I answered questions but I fail to meet their expectation for a good
pronunciation since I graduated with a course very related to such.
They say if you’re skill wise, you can find a job and endure
it but in my case, possession of such basic skills about pronunciation is even
the toughest thing I failed to improve during my school days. If I am to blame others for not giving
sufficient aid for my own pronunciation trouble, it would end up for the blame
bouncing back to me.
I am still trying to have at least recover from the permanence this negligence left me,
and hoping in the long run, they won’t hesitate to accept me in their companies
since. I am perfectionist so I am able to bring out the best in me.
