Hong Kong + Taiwanese — HK2 : 456
S1 = Taiwanese female
S2 = Hong Kong male
Context: S2 is talking about his experiences in a Catholic primary school, where some of the fathers were quite artistic.
S2 : one of you know italian father you know, he used the bamboo you know
Intended Words : italian
Heard as : i tell you
Discussion : It is hard to find anything particular with this pronunciation that causes a problem. Possibly, the vowel in the second syllable is not fully open, so it is heard as [e] rather than [æ]; and the third syllable seems to be [lɪn] rather than [lɪən]. But these are not unexpected features of conversational speech. Maybe the problem is that it was said quite fast and not very loudly.