English is my second language here as well, me and Mario come from the same place ;) . When I came to US ( twenty something years ago ), i was trying to learn English by watching American movies with the subtitles on, I quickly learned that two most common sentences used in movies were " I love You " and " F....You " . When out on a date it worked just fine, but trying to get a job was a completely different story.... .
For a very long time I had major problems with proper pronunciation, a lot of words sounded alike. I will never forget my first service call when client had an issue with a relatively inexpensive receiver that kept shutting down and going to " protect mode ", upon my arrival I have learned that he had a pair of exotic and very low IMPEDANCE speakers , so I have connected the dots and quickly replied to the client ( with a heavy Polish accent ) : " You have an IMPOTENCE problem " ...