Below is a link to a clip from the TV show NCIS. In posting it on the blog I was hoping to show how one of the characters in the show who speaks English as a second language finds some of the sounds in some of the words in our commonly used idioms/sayings confusing.
http://youtu.be/dyd9-8ZYsIA
Although you will find that not all of the idioms she is getting wrong are because of the sounds of words, sometimes it is just the word itself she is getting wrong.
An example that I took away from this clip where she did get the sound wrong was when she tried to use the idiom 'Drop it' instead she says 'Drip it.'
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