From the first day I study English I try my best to pronounce every word correctly and make my voice sounds like a native speaker's. But one of my friends told me that those native speakers dislike a
ESL person with a good pronunciation (of course her own pronunciation is not good). At her words I felt at a loss.
As to myself, I don't dislike a foreigner who can speak my mother tongue fluently. On the contary I like to get close to these people.
So I begin to doubt if what I have been persuiting all these years is all wrong.
I know I cannot change my accent but I can change my pronunciation and pronunciation is different from accent in my opinion.
So how should we look on pronunciation?
I feel puzzled.