When the 'T' Words are Just Too Difficult to Pronunce As a non native English speaker, one of the difficulties I have in pronunciation is pronuncing words that have T in the middle and end with an R. Pronuncing words such as ‘water’, ‘daughter’, and ‘better’ is so arduous. The T is like pronunce somewhere between T and R and I can’t seem to get it right. In the Indonesian language we usually pronounce a very thick T just like in ‘tax’, ‘temper’, and ‘touch’. There were times when I pronunce the word ‘daughter’ using my Indonesian tongue and I got a confused look because of it. And when I tried to correct it using (what I consider as) a ‘native’ pronunciation I got an even more confused look. He eventually knew what I meant after I wrote it in a piece of paper. Another bad experience in pronuncing the ‘T’ words is during my English writing class. I had to say the word ‘castle’ three times and my English professor still didn’t get what I mean. I almost wanted to kill him at that time.