Baldo by Hector D. Cantú and Carlos Castellanos for March 20, 2022

me neither.

potato, potato

Dad doesn’t know it’s MEH-hee-koh?

I had the same problem learning the difference between pero and perro until my Mexican friend pronounced it “perrrrrrro”.

I played that game a couple of time with a foreign exchange student from Brazil. I never could master his first name “Bernardo”, which was more like Bear-NOD-o with a hint of a rolling “R” just prior to the “D”, or ever worse, the name of the city he came from, Belo Horizonte, which I won’t even try to spell phonetically.

Ah, word balloon pronunciations….

If you had remembered the accent mark, he could have seen the difference.

In the Spanish version of this strip there’s an accent over the “e” when Sergio says it.

We visited a friend who’d married a German and moved there. As she was learning German a child was telling her the same thing. She wasn’t pronouncing a word correctly.

HA!

I had that problem with cab drivers in the UK. I would say the destination and they would say where? After 4 repeats they’d get the gist of where and repeat what I thought I said.

I’m glad I didn’t have to learn my heritage languages; German, Danish, Gaelic.

maybe you should say it instead of reading it through speech bubbles.

ka-tomato

This would have worked much better had the captions been phonetic so the reader could comprehend the difference in the pronunciation. Instead, it just appears to be the same word repeated over and over.

Yeah, this doesn’t work as a comic strip.

I studied French as an adult and one day in the class there was a golden-aged woman who could not perceive the difference between “hotel” and “hospital”.

This is like that Star Trek character who’s name is pronounced Data, not Data

I’m not seeing the difference either!

LOL I get it.

Boy, is my face read. I’ve been pronouncing it “Mexico” all these years. Glad to know it’s actually “Mexico.”

A tourist couple argue over whether Hawaii is pronounced “Hawaii” or “Havaii.” They stop a man and ask him. He says “Havaii.” They say “Thank you” and he says “You’re velcome.”

I cant see the difference either.

Spell it with a “j” instead of an “x.” De nada.

I prefer to keep the English pronunciation of foreign names. Pair-us not Paree. Key-ev not Keev. Churchill said Nazzi not Not-see, and Joe-dell instead of Yodel for General Jodl. I want to say Spain not Espanya. How would you like to have to use the native names for Armenia and Estonia? Almost any foreign place name is not pronounced our way by the people who live there.