NON-USC - what word in YOUR language does your USC SO destroy?

[thongd4me 69]

Answers should include the native script, (including Arabic or Chinese, for example) and the meaning.

[HeatDeath 431]

I'm an English speaker from Canada, but American citizens (including my wife) absolutely destroy the word "cheque"

Cheque: noun: a paper financial instrument used to transfer smal-to-medium amounts of money from one bank account to another.

Check: verb: to investigate, inspect.

They AREN'T the same thing!

[And don't get me started on washroom/bathroom/restroom either! ]

[thongd4me 69]

This thread is for the NON-US Citizen wives & husbands to tell about their US Citizen's

trouble pronouncing words and saying things correctly in their native language.

Both members of the couple can be English-speaking but this is for the foreign one

to tell about the way the American pronounces words & uses English or the foreign

language of their home country.

[chri'stina 190]

My husband doesn't post here anymore but I can tell you which words I have a really hard time with.

One is the Hindi word for car. मोटरगाडी (I hope that script is right, copied it from a website). In Roman script it's motor gaadi. The gaadi part is where I fail! The d is not the English d, more of an r and soft d sound that I fail at still despite trying lots and lots of times. I get it right maybe 1 out of 10 times.

Also the word dhanyavad धन्यवाद which means thank you, the h after letters gives me problems and the whole word I just can't say the right way. I have tried over and over! I say it anyway and in India they knew what I meant at least.

A huge advantage for me is that in India many people speak fluent English and most of the signs in the cities are in English!

[thongd4me 69]

My husband doesn't post here anymore but I can tell you which words I have a really hard time with.

One is the Hindi word for car. मोटरगाडी (I hope that script is right, copied it from a website). In Roman script it's motor gaadi. The gaadi part is where I fail! The d is not the English d, more of an r and soft d sound that I fail at still despite trying lots and lots of times. I get it right maybe 1 out of 10 times.

Also the word dhanyavad धन्यवाद which means thank you, the h after letters gives me problems and the whole word I just can't say the right way. I have tried over and over! I say it anyway and in India they knew what I meant at least.

A huge advantage for me is that in India many people speak fluent English and most of the signs in the cities are in English!

Interesting; no harm in the USC posting here about their challenges with their SO's language

My other thread is for problems regarding English only.

[Dr. Obvious 49]

Any German word that ends in -eln. I think if I had never seen them spelled out, I would have not had such difficulty with them.