Language

Everybody has a few words they can´t say. You know your word, but you still make the same mistake over and over again. my friend says for example always teléphone (stress on the second e), she knows it, but says it still, just out of habbit. We all (my other friends) know it and tease her with it. Not in a rude way. I mean everyone has those words or not?

I know that I have a lot. In my mother language it´s bad, but in english (a forgein language for me) it´s even worse. Like every German I have extremely difficulties saying "th" and "v". The "v" sound is every once in a while a big problem, because people just don´t understand me, if I try to tell the that I play volleyball or go on vacation.
Also difficult is saying Barack Obama (why isn´t is name John Wood or something easy?!) I just keep saying the president, as if I wouldn´t know his name. A little odd side of me.

It was really funny for me, when I had a French exchange student for the summer living with me. It was soooo cute, that she couldn´t sa "ha"! I taught her some German sayings with a lot of "ha" in it and she and I couldn´t stop laughing, because it was just too hilarious!

This experience helped me a lot to understand how people feel, if they don´t understand me, because of mispronunciation. I wonder how it sounds for you when I speak, just accents wise. I would say (without being egoistic) that my English is pretty advanced (okay, you can make-up your own mind, since you read my text and you can tell, how god my English is), but everyone and still tell right way, that I´m definitely not American. I think it´s is kind of good, since I´m really not American and I like to present my own culture. I just wonder why they can tell right away.

Maybe I am wrong and my English is not that good?!