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My wife is Spanish and although fluent in English she still makes mistakes in pronouncing certain words. Mostly because of the use of the letters B & V which sound the same to her and most Spanish people.

The other day my wife pointed at a cat and told me that she loves Bolbo's .... She meant a Volvo :-)

What words do you have problems with?

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People here have problems with P and F. It makes me giggle when someone says cellpone instead of using the F sound. You would also have another person saying peenix instead of phoenix. It's not that bad. We don't really have F in our language anyway.

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On 9/26/2013 at 3:04 PM, wholesaleblogger said:

My wife is Spanish and although fluent in English she still makes mistakes in pronouncing certain words. Mostly because of the use of the letters B & V which sound the same to her and most Spanish people.

Japanese have similar problems too.

On 9/27/2013 at 3:14 PM, DiesIrae said:

People here have problems with P and F. It makes me giggle when someone says cellpone instead of using the F sound. You would also have another person saying peenix instead of phoenix. It's not that bad. We don't really have F in our language anyway.

Arabians have similar problems too.

 

As for me, an Indonesian, my most hated letter in English is "c" since I didn't know whether it would be read as an actual "c" in my language (example: champion), a "k" (example: crown), or an "s" (example: cyber).

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