PART 2: Mishearing

PART 2 (Genre: My Failure Story)

– Mishearing –

In my college English class the other day, I had a Dictation Quiz to correctly write down an English sentence that a professor read out loud on an answer sheet. It might be rare for native English speakers to mishear English, but I, a Japanese student, often do as I did in the Dictation Quiz:

“Are your family members all ready?”

I’m not sure why I didn’t notice the easy mistake right after I heard this professor’s sentence, but actually the letters “R” and “L” make confusing sounds for me to distinguish. I misheard it and wrote down SOMETHING SILLY:

“Are your family members all ‘lady?’”

In that class, I learned the difference between “R” and “L” very well.

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