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ff7c11 | 4 years ago

French speakers often struggle with beach/bitch :)

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As Spanish speaker I struggled myself with that one, sweating, and probably over correcting making the e super long beeeeach to be safe. :D

desert_boi|4 years ago

In German, the vowels between schwül and schwul were really difficult to do for me as an American English speaker. I couldn't ever hear the difference between rounded and unrounded vowels. American English vowels are only rounded in the back. u and o (and in the East the au in caught).

pmontra|4 years ago

Italian speaker: also piece / peace / piss and sheet / shit.

We have only seven vowel sounds. A i u and open / closed e o. But different parts of the country often use only one of the two e and o sounds.

blowski|4 years ago

There's also the classic can't, count, and cunt (the last being one of the most offensive expletives).

dvirsky|4 years ago

For me that actually was easier - learning English mostly from TV as a kid I just pronounced can't as "kent".