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Originally Posted by MikeS
One obvious point is that they're used to the 5 tones in Thai, and then try to import that into English, and it just doesn't work.
Another is the different voels and consonant combinations resulting in them trying to add a single vowel to English words e.g. speak becomes sa-peak.
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MikeS, thanks for bringing this thread back to L1 interference. I think linguistic determinism was a digression. In addition to Thai, other L1s add vowel sounds to make English more pronounceable. It's called epenthesis.