aokoye wrote: Question for you? Are you speaking to speakers of Pashto and Hindi/Urdu as part of your attempts to learn those languages?
Sorry, but I don't understand you.
What have speakers of Pashto to do with it? I meant the authors of some language handbooks.
Edit
Let me quote myself:
I'm sure you're not trying to tell me that 'sink, think, sing' are pronounced the same in English, but they are by most Polish learners.
'Wine' is not the same as 'vine' as some Germans say it.
And they do it exactly because they haven't precticed their minimal pairs. And the didn't do it, because the authors didn't draw their attention to that simple solution.