Quote Originally Posted by mighty_rome
Yeah, native English speakers are all so ignorant and clueless that there is no way they could possibly ever learn another language, or learn how to pronounce any non-English word correctly. Roll/trill an R? Physically impossible for a native English speaker. Their tongues are actually different compared to all other humans. It's amazing.
You misunderstand me.
Languages do not all use the same sounds (phonemes), and as a baby you 'tune out' the ones you don't hear from your parents/other talking people. Over time it gets harder to distinguish until you simply cannot hear them. There's lots of examples, but I thought that the English not hearing the two distinct French r (not rrrrolled, anyone who ever heard Noel Coward speak knows the English can do that) sounds was a good and suitable example because the languages have a history of influencing each other and because much of French is derived from 'rustic Latin' in what was Gaul.