Does it annoy you when you cannot pronouce something?

I am not sure what word I cannot pronounce. I know there are several words. When I was younger...I could not say "Z". My speech therapist told me it was TOUGH one. So I kept trying and trying till I got it. I'll think what word that I cannot pronounce.
 
Reception is the first class where children HAVE to start going to school. Its a class for 4-5 years old


Sorry guys I keep forgetting the totally different school systems.
 
ahhh, somewhat similar, HA....I don't know if I walked "late" or not, could ask....but the talking parts sounds same.....:hmm:
 
I didnt walk till I was around 19-20 months. I was struggling to sit and didnt actually sit unaided until around a year old. I needed intensive pysio. my mum told me that i had something wrong with my back
 
HA, had Braile changed over the years very much like many languages? Are there various forms? I had read somewhere there were like different levels <One, Two? > but don't know much about it
 
My delay in learning how to walk had to do with being totally blind. Since I couldn't see what was around me, it was difficult to explore my environment. I was placed in an early education program when I was 4, but had to repeat another year (at my parents' discretion) due to the struggles I was having due to my blindness. I entered kindergarten when I was 5 and graduated high school when I was 17. In 2nd and 4th grade, my teachers wanted me to skip a grade, but my parents refused because they did not want me to be the youngest child in my class. I'm glad they made that decision because if they didn't, I would have been the youngest member of my senior class at the age of 15.
 
No worries about change of topic. we can get back to subject in a min
 
dogmom said:
HA, had Braile changed over the years very much like many languages? Are there various forms? I had read somewhere there were like different levels <One, Two? > but don't know much about it
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There are 3 kinds of Braille: Grade I, Grade II and Grade III.

Grade I is uncontracted Braille and consists of words that are spelled out. It also includes punctuation.

Grade II is contracted Braille and is made up of short form words to represent complete words. For example, the word "can" is represented by the letter C, the word "knowledge" is indicated with the letter K, the word "people" is denoted with a letter P. There are other abbreviations that represent words such as a "the" sign which represents the word "the" or an "-en" sign which can be the prefix or suffix of a word. Grade II Braille also consists of punctuation and number signs which indicates that what is written is a number as opposed to a letter. There is also a capital sign which indicates that a word has been capitalized.

Grade III Braille contains the most abbreviations and is another way of writing shorthand. There are a variety of shortcuts that are used to write words and numbers. This kind of Braille is primarily used by students.

There is also something called Nemeth Braille which is a way of denoting mathematical equations in Braille.

Finally, there is Braille music notation which is simply Braille music.

Braille really hasn't changed all that much since it was developed by Louis Braille.

However, over the past 30 years, there have been a few changes made by the Braille Association of North America (BANA) including the exclusion of Grade 1 1/2 Braille which was the happy medium between Grade I and Grade II which was primarily used in the 50s and 60s.
 
As a child I could not pronouce the Film Back to the Future. I used to call it back to the furniture

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I remember having to explain to my opthalmologists that I have retrolentralfibroplasia (now called retinopathy of prematurity). I finally gave up in frustration and abbreviated it to RLF. :lol:
 
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must be frustrating having to explain over and over
 
oh, :ty:for understanding topic sidetrack.. and very much, HA, for explaining!:D

Very intriguing about Braile... is there anyone who still uses that Grade 1 and half system? Can a person choose to stay on with one level or another as opposed to moving up through the levels or is that just impractical <say for example only kids books are done in Grade 1 and the person is in her 40's and has no need developmentally of using a children level book?>
 
It has not bothered me that I mispronounce some words incorrectly. I have the same problem as another poster here with some r's sounding like w's. I feel like Elmer Fudd sometimes. :) Whenever I do say a word incorrectly, either my SO or my folks will correct me, but they always do it nicely and I don't mind at all -- I'd rather be told how to say it right than continue to say it wrong and embarrass myself eventually with a stranger! I think the key is that I'm correctly politely and not laughed at while being corrected.
 
rockin'robin said:
Let's try "spaghetti" Dixie.....say....spa...get...ee........Now, if ya can help me "say" lasagna....(it's a hard one!) I cannot pronounce it.
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:lol: Let's try "lasagna" Rockin Robin...... say ..... La ...... zon ..... yuh. That's the way I learned to pronouce it. :giggle:

Took me forever to figure out how to pronounce plaid, used to say it like 'played' but mom corrected me and said it was more like "plad".
 
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