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French speakers often struggle with beach/bitch :)

• desert_boi 5y 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).
• alfonsodev 5y ago
  As Spanish speaker I struggled myself with that one, sweating, and probably over correcting making the e super long beeeeach to be safe. :D
• blowski 5y ago
  There's also the classic can't, count, and cunt (the last being one of the most offensive expletives).
  • dvirsky 5y ago
    For me that actually was easier - learning English mostly from TV as a kid I just pronounced can't as "kent".
• pmontra 5y 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.