I was fortuitously born into a country whose native language often lacks vowels and sounds to the untrained ear mostly like a throat infection. I then proceeded to skip the part of Czech school where they corrected the inevitable enunciation errors that tend to crop up due to the aforementioned vocal situation while at the same time moving to the States too late to learn how to pronounce American vowels correctly. Thus I remain the only person that I know of who has either an accent or a speech impediment in every language they speak. Additionally, because the languages I (somewhat) speak all have different emphasis placement and verbal structure, I tend to on the first try get it wrong, disastrously - (see the words impotent, Antipodes, and disgusting, among others). This came to a head the other day when I discovered that the pop minstrel responsible for such musical wonders as "California Girls" and "I Kissed a Girl" was named "Kay-tee", (not CAT - E) Perry.
All this to say that I empathized considerably with the poor Germans in this education ad, whose premise is "Don't go to schools whose name you can't pronounce, even if they're MIT."
