> how difficult it seems for a lot of native English speakers to correctly pronounce the word It matches pretty closely to English words, or strings with well

> how difficult it seems for a lot of native English speakers to correctly pronounce the word It matches pretty closely to English words, or strings with well understood English pronunciations, that are different than the Dutch pronunciation. Given that most English speakers read that word before hearing it, our brains tell us how it should be pronounced, and we need to both (a) identify that it doesn't just sound different because of the speaker's accent, and (b) train our brain to say it the way we hear it, not the way we read it. I would imagine it's easier to learn the correct pronunciation for words that an English speaker wouldn't otherwise have any idea how to pronounce.