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I don't know what could have been done differently in my English learning journey, but it's quite odd that I'm still unable to pronounce extremely simple words,
by yodsanklai 5y ago
I don't know what could have been done differently in my English learning journey, but it's quite odd that I'm still unable to pronounce extremely simple words, even after living years in the US and the UK.
There are many simple words that I only recently learned to pronounce correctly. For instance, "write" is pronounced as "right", and "vegetable" is not pronounced as "table".
In these particular cases, it's not that that I'm unable to generate the proper sounds, but I just never learned the correct pronunciation. Nobody ever corrected me until recently.
- saalweachter 5y ago> Nobody ever corrected me until recently. Part of the problem there is that English has enough regional accents that we're all exposed to on a day-to-day basis that if you're understandable most people won't realize you're pronouncing something "wrong" instead of "differently".
- anticensor 5y agoVegetable the noun is pronounced with /'-əbl/ and vegetable the adjective is pronounced with /-'eibl/.