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Not even age... English-only speakers generally (let's say it never happened and my business is with British and Aus people mainly) cannot correctly pronounce e
by tluyben2 5y ago
Not even age... English-only speakers generally (let's say it never happened and my business is with British and Aus people mainly) cannot correctly pronounce either or both my first or last name. Some of them, especially the closer partners, want to try but we literally had sessions where we recorded me saying it and them saying it and listening to it to show them it was still different even though in their head it sounds exactly the same... and I really really don't care: I have a client calling me 'tiktok' (long before the tiktok app) because he got fed up struggling with my name. Fine with me.
- wink 5y agoHad a native English speaker as a coworker who struggled with U vs Ü in German. No matter how we tried to convey the difference in sound, "you're saying the same thing".
- axaxs 5y agoThanks for sharing. The worst for me personally is 'ng'. My wife has tried a hundred times to teach me. To me it just sounds like a nasally 'n'. I tried that and get laughed at. She tries our short 'i' and gets laughed at. All in fun of course.