On pronuntiation If you're learning English at this moment, and the work on your pronuntiation is not a priority of your learning strategy, let me tell you something that may change your approach and that's going to show you why you should pay more attention to that skill. I'm going to write about a funny anecdote that happened to me about three years ago. That was the time at which I was a newbie student of English, and I used to attend some Meetup groups regularly in order to practice conversation -- I'd like to mention here that I've created my own's, which is working quite nicely-- One day, while conversating with an English man about the weather (what else?), we were comparing the one from England with the weather in Spain. Since I'm from Valencia, which is a city located in the East coast of the country, I started telling him about our local weather, which is most of the year very friendly regarding low temperatures. After some minutes, the conversation about the weather naturally led to the Sun, the sea, the summertime and.....the beach. Of course, I started then to explain to him how nice, wonderful, hot and enjoyable our beaches are, and that we have plenty of them all around that every visitor should find a gap to know and visit. The top sentence coming out my mouth was “once you've known a Valencian beach, you'll remember it forever”. The face of that man was undescribable.He was like saying through his eyes: “ Hey bloke, we don't know each other...what kind of shit are you telling me? Are you under some kind of psychiatrist treatment or what?” I just thought the topic was not of his interest until another person who was sat close to us told me: “ Ehem...I think you're not pronouncing properly. You should enlarge a bit more the letter “e” on the word “beach”. Do you want to know why...? Well, I've been working my ass off on pronuntiation since that precise minute. I think you should start to do it so....just in case.