German EFL learner homophones

[mothwing]

One of the learners in my tutoring centre has the most interesting pronunciation. She was reading a text the other day and it took a while for me to figure out what she was talking about.





Oh. And "sought", forgot about that one. I think she was talking about a sword, about which she had thoughts. But I can't be certain.

Comments

[lordhellebore]

o_O But all of these sound really really different!

[rizardofoz.livejournal.com]

I can seem most of them sounding similar. But THOUGHT??

[aixa.livejournal.com]

Well, using my very nasal, very northern Midwest accent, sod, sot and thought sound alike, and sword and sort sound alike, but the two groups sound nothing like each other. But my northern Michigan accent is definitely not what you want your students to sound like!