Raqib Chowdhury

English Pronunciation Dictionary for Hindi Speakers Raqib Chowdhury

This book is meant for students, professionals, travelers, businessperson, and others who need to communicate in English and can read Devanagari script. As the Devanagari script in its original form is used in many languages of the subcontinent, including Hindi, Marathi, Nepalese, the speakers of these languages can benefit by using this dictionary. The book is meant to help in improving the pronunciation of English speech of its users. Through regular use of the dictionary its users are expected to develop a "comfortably intelligible pronunciation" (Kenworthy, 1987) which all Indians, and Native English Speakers (NS) and Non-Native English speakers (NNS) from other countries will easily understand.