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Not sure if I will be able to speak Polish [53]
Polish pronunciation is much much much much more difficult for a non-slav due to complexity
In English you need experience to know how words are pronounced, in Polish you don't need this experience, you just need to know how all letters (and 2-letter combinations) in the alphabet are pronounced. It's a big difference.I learned both English and Polish from scratch. I was younger when I learned English, it's easier then. My native language (Swedish) is more similar to English than Polish. But I'm still 100% convinced that an adult native Slavic speaker needs more time to master English pronunciation, than a native non-Slavic speaker needs to master Polish pronunciation.
Polish have some very difficult sounds for non-Slavic speakers. But when you know them fairly well you always know how to pronounce a new word. In English you can know all sounds properly but still you don't know exactly how to pronounce it. You need to have a "feeling" how it's pronounced.
The thing with English is that it's spoken with a zillion different accents and pronunciations, and people make themselves understood anyway, because people are used to it.
Polish on the other hand... Poles are not really used to hearing foreigners speak Polish, and they easily get confused if you make some minor error
This is true of course.
