Hello everybody.
Short background story: I spent the last 4.5 years in the US. I'm married to an us citizen (I'm from Switzerland) and i learned the English language with the help of my wife and the Rosetta stone program.
Now I've always been aware of the fact that for some reason..I'm incapable of pronouncing certain English words. Mostly words that start with the letters TH like three/tree/the/thin/thick/theoretically.
I've never seen that as a major problem until today's quite humiliating encounter.(Always bothered me though)
I went to the store with my step daughter and that's what happened.
Me: I would like 20 slices of thin cut roast beef.
Deli Clerk: what?
Me: 20 thin slices of roast beef.
Deli Clerk: I don't understand what you want.
Me: Thin slices of roast beef?
Deli Clerk: Sorry what?
Me: Thin ? The opposite of Thick?
Deli Clerk: huh?
Me: Thin cut. T-H-I-N.
Deli Clerk: Sorry I can't understand you.
My Stepdaughter: He means thin. Thin slices of roast beef.
Deli Clerk: Oh ok. Sorry.
To be honest I have no idea how I could possibly get rid of that pronunciation problem?