Flashermac Posted July 18, 2009 Report Share Posted July 18, 2009 Speak Easy Thai - just like Al Capone! << First, I come from a British-Canadian family; my mother speaks with a British accent and I speak with a Canadian accent. The phonetics we use are different. For example, she pronounces "draw" and "drawer" identically, as "drore"; I don't. So I realised that the phonetics I was entering were appropriate for me and other North Americans, but inappropriate in many cases for British speakers, including Aussies (who speak a kind of Cockney-accented English), New Zealanders (who mangle all the vowels), South Africans (who are incomprehensible),... >> Link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cavanami Posted July 19, 2009 Report Share Posted July 19, 2009 I speak Thai...but no one understand me The other twelve languages that I speak all sound like English...so figure! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted July 19, 2009 Author Report Share Posted July 19, 2009 I thought you spoke Chicago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cavanami Posted July 19, 2009 Report Share Posted July 19, 2009 ...that's one of the twelve! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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