G'day, what's going on mate? Today, I wanna discuss the reason why how you order words is equally important over how you say words. Some people say it's hard to understand what you are trying to say due to the chaos of the sentence structure, even if your pronunciation is crystal clear. Others say it's difficult to catch the words what you are saying because you're mispronouncing the words a lot. Let's elaborate those situations a bit further.

The level or sophistication of your vocabulary you're trying to use doesn't matter at all as long as you're using simple words naturally and correctly in terms of word choice and collocation. The problem is your sentence structure. At least, you've got to make sure that you order words correctly in accordance with grammatical structure such as SV, SVO, SVC, SVOC, SVOO, something like that. You don't always have to have complex or compound-complex sentences, which sometimes confuse you, right? Just simple sentences are enough to be able to convey your feelings and thoughts to your listener. So, don't worry about the length or sophistication of your sentence. English grammar is not that hard to get used to, precisely because it might take 2 to 3 months to master all of essential grammar points from scratch for sure. But, of course, to this end, you've got to make sure that you refine English pronunciation and learn etymology first prior to learning English grammar. That's the way my learning process should be.

Equally important, but from my perspective, how you say words is, specifically speaking, slightly more important than how you order words. As I've explained above, word order is critical. Even if the word order you're saying is pretty accurate, you enunciate words disastrously wrong, in which case I don't think many people can follow the flow or trajectory of what you're trying to say. You've got to be extra careful about how you say words. You don't have to be perfect about pronunciation, but the clearer you pronounce words, the easier your listener will be able to understand you. This is so straightforward, but not many people are aware of. To solve this problem, you should try to say words a bit slowly, but not saying word by word, which means that you should say words by phrase not word-base.

All in all, although I'm always emphasising the fact that pronunciation is the most important part of communication, the most basic sentence structure or word order has also equally got to get them right.

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