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English language has become an important medium for executing all business and official formalities with respect to documentation and finalizing all activities. English language performs an important role as an official language. In the present age of industrialization, English is the language of business. In Countries like India, a person gets affected because of his mother tongue and faces problems in pronouncing right word in English. If you learn English language in your early childhood, our mother tongue doesn't influence pronunciation. Indians are also judged on the basis of their fluency in English language and right pronunciation. Wrong pronunciation of English words create lots of confusion and misunderstanding because there are so many words in English which have slight difference in sounds but have huge difference in meaning. This can become a barrier in going abroad as well as settling down there. Poor pronunciation not only creates negative impression but it also creates confusion and misunderstanding. There are total 44 sounds in English. Alone single letter 'e' has three different sounds like in 'bet', 'fate', 'and elephant 'and 'eager'. The ee sound is used with the middle portion of the mouth, the eh sound is used with the middle portion of the mouth and the er sound is used with the rear portion of the mouth. Language is created by human beings and whatever they require; they expand and pronounce the word in that way. English spelling does not indicate how a word should be pronounced because there are many letters in English words which remain silent. There are different and multiple sounds of the letters of English Alphabet and sounds vary in terms of position of the mouth and intensity (low or high). Non-native speakers of English find difficulty in practicing the accent of the native speakers of English. Of course, this problem is vice versa. The first section of the paper emphasizes the importance of pronunciation in the life of Indians. The second section analyses various reasons for poor pronunciation of non-native speakers and how to overcome the problem. Key Words: official language - documentation- pronunciation -industrialization - lingua-franca - accent, influence