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pagles
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English has been my pain for 15 years
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."
precisioncoder
on Sept 2, 2013
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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.
girvo
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I'm 23 and a native Australian English speaker and I still run into this problem for the same reason.
bizarref00l
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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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