English has been my pain for 15 years

Re:English has been my pain for 15 years by pagles on Monday September 02, 2013 @08:20AM (#6314790)

This sentence is so true "My brain is full of associations between written words and funny sounds that really don't exist in the actual language."

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Re:English has been my pain for 15 years by precisioncoder on Monday September 02, 2013 @09:04AM (#6314947)

Heh, I grew up speaking English and still had that problem just because my reading vocabulary surpassed the vocabulary in usage in the country where I was.

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Re:English has been my pain for 15 years by girvo on Monday September 02, 2013 @10:12AM (#6315222)

I'm 23 and a native Australian English speaker and I still run into this problem for the same reason.

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Re:English has been my pain for 15 years by bizarref00l on Monday September 02, 2013 @08:42AM (#6314866)

When I'm in doubt about pronunciation, " $ echo complicatedword | festival --tts ". Not the best solution in the world but it helps a lot.

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