Yup.
First they say it so fast that that I had to get them to slow it down so I could hear the whole word, then there's all the implied sounds when they say it.
When they say it there's a brief rolled tr sound between the k and the r.
Plus I didn't want to repeat my brother in laws mistake when he mixed up kala and khala.
He was trying to say he was the favourite uncle, but first he said 'kala' and then he mispronounced it as 'khala'.
Which kinda worked out since he's black, but the embarrassment when he realized that he had used kala instead of kaloo was pretty obvious.
I had already had an incident where I had said dirty, but I had said it with my head turned so they thought I had said 'dutee'
And to be honest for someone with almost no real exposure to the languages the words are a lot tougher to get right than you'd think.here is almost not commonality with in the words with western languages.
Her parents speak mostly Urdu while the rest of her family speaks Hindi. Fairly close but enough differences that if you're not familiar with the different languages you can start mispronouncing stuff all over the place.
The funny part is that now I can, (often not always) hear a difference between Hindi based languages and Arabic based languages whereas before I couldn't tell.
First they say it so fast that that I had to get them to slow it down so I could hear the whole word, then there's all the implied sounds when they say it.
When they say it there's a brief rolled tr sound between the k and the r.
Plus I didn't want to repeat my brother in laws mistake when he mixed up kala and khala.
He was trying to say he was the favourite uncle, but first he said 'kala' and then he mispronounced it as 'khala'.
Which kinda worked out since he's black, but the embarrassment when he realized that he had used kala instead of kaloo was pretty obvious.
I had already had an incident where I had said dirty, but I had said it with my head turned so they thought I had said 'dutee'
And to be honest for someone with almost no real exposure to the languages the words are a lot tougher to get right than you'd think.here is almost not commonality with in the words with western languages.
Her parents speak mostly Urdu while the rest of her family speaks Hindi. Fairly close but enough differences that if you're not familiar with the different languages you can start mispronouncing stuff all over the place.
The funny part is that now I can, (often not always) hear a difference between Hindi based languages and Arabic based languages whereas before I couldn't tell.