As a French Canadian moving from Quebec to Ontario, that struggle was real.

My English learning process was me being a eight year old kid who wanted to play diablo. No clue about shit. Barely able to read in the first place and just going from one word which is similar to one in my native language to the next similar one. Like "ok, intelligence looks a lot like intelligenz. Dexterity makes my bow do more damage so it should be something like speed or whatever" so basically trial and error over the years. The pronunciation was accordingly. As an example, strength was "stren g t hö". Not sure how I'm supposed to write what i said back then xD Still to this day from reading and such and not practicing enough speaking English some are way off.

I call this being bookish, pronounced "bockish"

Jokes on you, I pronounce most of words in English wrong, because no one bothered to teach me proper pronunciation at school.

Fuck, it's me

I always vaguely wondered where in-FRAIR'd light fit into the spectrum because I only heard people talking about infra-red and ultraviolet...

This is why I love spanish as my second language. You don't have to guess what the word sounds like. Spelling and pronunciation always match.

The colour Beige was my downfall 🙈

Read a quote somewhere a while back, to paraphrase:

Never make fun of someone for mispronouncing a word; it means that their reading vocabulary has outgrown their spoken vocabulary.