Pronunciation confusions with the English Language

If the language you're trying to speak with isn't your native language, then it will be difficult for you to pronounce it well. Since the diction doesn't follow your mouth's diction. It is very difficult. I'm not an English speaker but I understand the language and can write in a good manner. I also experience having difficulties in pronunciation when I was facing a foreigner who's a native English speaker. It's is really hard to speak and communicate on other foreign languages.

As you know, I'm also a Filipino. I grew up watching American cartoons, movies, & TV shows. I'm not much of a speaker though. I just spoke the language when needed at school and I remember during English classes that we sometimes had an entire class dedicated to reading along with a tape. I don't know if you've used or heard of it, it's the "Spoken in English" book and we just read sets of drills throughout a class. I really disliked speaking English because I really love our own language. I remember in grade 6 when there was a Speak English policy. I was the "collector". For every Tagalog word spoken, I will charge them 1 peso. It was very contradictory because I dislike the policy as well. When there are no teachers around and we're in the canteen, I tell them to just go ahead and speak Filipino and I won't charge them, lol In 2009, I tried applying at a call center. I admit I wasn't really prepared when I was applying. I was asked by the interviewer to read a set of sentences. She said I had problems with p and f and I'm like hell no. I sing a lot of foreign songs for leisure and I encounter Fs a lot. She also told me my "th"e was hard. Does she not know that it's supposed to be pronounced that way? Anywho, I tried to apply for a free call center course later that year because it was free. The "assessor" told me I had no problems with p and f. It's just that I may not have enunciated it well/loud enough for the call center interviewer to hear. Speaking of foreign songs, my favorite would be Japanese songs. They have an F and that's why I was surprised that call center interviewer said I had problems with it. I've been singing Japanese songs for 10 years during that time. On another note, it's not really their tendency to add U's. It's because their "letters" are all syllables and so they sometimes have U's when not needed. Hahaha, I've been singing Japanese for so long that I believe I said Engrish one time or two. Oh, and on another note, the Japanese sometimes pronounce F like it's an H. It's like saying F but the tongue is not touching the teeth.

hi albertshisker As ah American when I was studying Spanish I was forever messing up on the r'as you had to roll them in some instances and so I would make the words all wrong and now that its been years since I took Spanish in college'I can read a lot of it but speaking its really a chore and of course most of the care givers here are Mexican and too they do not really speak the kind of Spanish I was taught either. And French always threw me with the leaving out of so manyletters again I can still read some French but cannot really speak it. it correctly.

hi again capt! well sometimes i also have a problem with f & p, V & B but it only happens when i am talking fast, and sometimes i have a tendency of eating words! lol! tongue twisters is a big help for me in improving. these days since i am living in the visayas region, i also have a tendency of using o for u and e for i, something like that, but then again it don't happen all the time.

Hi Captain, I miss out their jokes, satires, slang and also find it difficult to get the right word to express myself the correct way... As for pronunciations - here at my place there is no V and it is replaced with B or Bh. Same for Sh they have just one S for that. But I have no such pronunciation issues, spelling mistakes - at times yes, if I write on pen and paper. Cheers, theSids.