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My favourite word to troll people who are learning the language is "cerrojo" /θe'roxo/, meaning "latch" or "lock", as it contains the three most difficult conso
by pezezin 1y ago
My favourite word to troll people who are learning the language is "cerrojo" /θe'roxo/, meaning "latch" or "lock", as it contains the three most difficult consonants in the language in sequence xD
- jacquesm 1y agoIn Polish there is 'szczoteczka', which took me just about forever to learn how to pronounce. I just could not hear what I was doing wrong.
- usrnm 1y agoSame word in Russian is "щёточка". The lengths to which Poles are willing to go instead of just using Cyrillic will never stop to amuse me :D
- black_knight 1y agoI struggled quite a bit with "существительное" when learning Russian.
- usrnm 1y agoI was talking about spelling. I can clearly see how these clusters of consonants characteristic of all Slavic languages can be a pain for a beginner, no matter how you spell them.
- kakacik 1y agoNo Cyrillic imports, thank you. Russia decided to be the bully and murderer of its closest neighbors, don't need any more russian influence, even if literally just on paper. The further one is from them the more safety and prosperity there is, in every possible way.
- yaris 1y agoWith Polish it may be even harder to go backwards, look for a clip from "Jak rozpętałem drugą wojnę światową" movie on Youtube.
- littlekey 1y agoWhat I found helpful in parsing those z combinations is just replacing them with h instead. for example, if you went up to a random monolingual English speaker and showed them "shchotechka" they could probably pronounce it reasonably well. All those z's just throw people off.
- nielsbot 1y agoSince we're piling on with hard to say words: Danes love to ask people to say "rødgrød med fløde". https://translate.google.com/?sl=da&tl=en&text=rødgrød%20med%20fløde&op=translate https://translate.google.com/?sl=da&tl=en&text=rødgrød%20med... (click the speak icon)