what is the big deal???
there r many many words in english (and in othr languages) that are pronounced similar but have a different meaning.....

fun fact:the more languages a person knows...the more active is his brain and is prone to most brain diseases.........

BTW, i only know 3,(english,hindi and pujabi)i tried studying sanstkrit,but i gave up in midway.....way too difficult.....

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Well, I will put it this way. It's what my signature says.


And language learning is no cake walk. Take it from me. Learning Spanish for instance was a challenge in the beginning.

Uh using your brain more makes you get more brain related diseases? That doesn't even make any sense.

@Meroko
I guess it's an American thing. British do love linking their words.

oopsy......: oops :
"is immune to most brain diseases...."
sorry.......hehe...

@Ivana: I have checked the Oxford-dic on my laptop. And both British and American seems to have the same pronunciation "fla-wah" though BR one sounds a bit unclear and short compared to Am.

british often shorten the words a little....that makes understanding somewhat difficult.

Yup, I prefer the American way. Clearer.

sometimes americans "mumble-jumble" the words too....you know what i mean?

The Urban Dictionary has a definition of "mumble-jumble".

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Mumble%20Jumble

Is this what you mean? Or is it this one:

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=mumble-jumble

Anyways, Since this year I had to take a 3rd language, I chose French over Sanskrit & German. French is so damn tongue-twisting! -__-

@An: Ugh, French. It's been torturing me for 5 years. The grammar is fairly easy but the pronunciation kills you.


Well, I'm currently learning Swedish, French and Russian (I also have German at school but I don't bother with it)
I love Russian. It sounds so sweet.

@soumyakhanna

Tell me about it! The mumble−jumble I hear sometimes... x.x I know few people whose words I just cannot understand if they are not pronuncing them v e r y clearly.

@Sou: You want to mean that Americans sometimes don't speak clearly?

Jumble is just a word to rhyme 'mumble', am I right?

@Sui: I know. The grammar's easy. But I just can't wrap my head around those pronunciations. >.>

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I was wondering is Bonsoir one word or is it Bon Soir. Because the teacher taught us Bon Soir, & I'm reading Bonsoir everywhere.

@An: Well, I write it as one word. My teacher's French and she's always written it as one word but I'm pretty sure it's correct both ways.

@An: We learned it as one word.

@Mei, Sui: That's just what I was getting confused about. And I was also wondering how to pronounce Vingt?

Vingt- a very nasal van

Thanks Sui! Our teacher said that vingt was like Vang - like the English vang pronunciation. And I was pretty sure that's not right, since every French word is twisted up.