I mean... Being as this isn't my first trip to the foreign language rodeo, it probably could be even worse. At least I have a handle on a tapped (rather than a giveaway english-accent retroflex approximant) /r/, and I can do pure vowels /a/ /e/ /i/ /o/ /u/ just fine, but I definitely end up pronouncing y as more /ɪ/ than /ɨ/ (and in fact wikipedia tells me it ought to be realized as [ɘ̟]??) and I am terrible at distinguishing ź /ʑ/ from ż,rz /ʐ/ (and likewise the unvoiced and affricate versions of them) both in articulation and comprehension, and I constantly mistakenly perceive rz as two separate letters as I'm trying to sound things out instead of the biglyph that it is. Somehow this is never a problem with sz, cz.
I mean... Being as this isn't my first trip to the foreign language rodeo, it probably could be even worse. At least I have a handle on a tapped (rather than a giveaway english-accent retroflex approximant) /r/, and I can do pure vowels /a/ /e/ /i/ /o/ /u/ just fine, but I definitely end up pronouncing y as more /ɪ/ than /ɨ/ (and in fact wikipedia tells me it ought to be realized as [ɘ̟]??) and I am terrible at distinguishing ź /ʑ/ from ż,rz /ʐ/ (and likewise the unvoiced and affricate versions of them) both in articulation and comprehension, and I constantly mistakenly perceive rz as two separate letters as I'm trying to sound things out instead of the biglyph that it is. Somehow this is never a problem with sz, cz.
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