Learning English pronunciation by example...

A friend of mine, who is a teacher, once told me that in one of her Geography lessons, she had difficulties getting some of her students to pronounce the name of a city, OKLAHOMA !

A Malay student, read it as O.K. lah Omar
A Chinese student, read it as Okra Oma !
An Indian student read it as Wok Kla Wo Ma !
Don't laugh, but do you know how to pronounce correctly, the word....

"Oklahoma" ?

The Proper Way is:

OKLA... (with a pause) ... HOMA

(There's a gap between the 'a' and the 'h'.)

Don't agree, let me prove it...

Perhaps the native English teachers coming to Malaysia should use this form to encourage the students to remember what they have been taught. Some Iranians students I knew in the '70s said they learn English by reading Playboy magazines!

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