i’m also not a native english speaker, but having to pass english certification exams made me a lot more of pronunciation. loose is /luːs/ lose is /luːz/ not

i’m also not a native english speaker, but having to pass english certification exams made me a lot more of pronunciation. loose is /luːs/ lose is /luːz/ notice the “s” and “z”. i’m sure this doesn’t help in languages where “s” and “z” are very close together phonetically.