Non-native pronunciations of English

This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For the distinction between [ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters.
This gift shop in Japan spells the English word "decoration" as decolation, as a result of the well-attested difficulty of Japanese speakers in distinguishing English ⟨l⟩ and ⟨r⟩ sounds.

Non-native pronunciations of English result from the common linguistic phenomenon in which non-native speakers of any language tend to transfer the intonation, phonological processes and pronunciation rules of their first language into their English speech. They may also create innovative pronunciations not found in the speaker's native language.