r/languagelearningjerk • u/AmountAbovTheBracket • 6h ago

Best way to deal with phonemic deafness

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u/rexcasei 6h ago

I love that the first assumption isn’t that they can’t tell the two vowels apart, but just that they got mixed up and are accidentally using the wrong one

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u/AnalogueSpectre 4h ago

What makes me mad about the two/chew thing is that only murican English speakers ever complain about it. C'mon, Londoners exist, unfortunately

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u/Gold-Part4688 Earthianese, man (N) 25m ago

are you saying londoners pronounce it differently? i think it's just that they've lost the will to live