difficult English words for Polish speakers?

This is a question for anyone who speaks Polish and who learned English later in life. What are some words in the English language that you found most difficult to pronounce or remember?

pronunciation: available, turtle, girl, world, focus, book, cook, pronouncing TH in THAT, THIEF ,THOOTHPASTE:)

My friend has problems with TH - so she usually says Fink as a posed to THink, but then again you get a hell of a lot of English than cannot pronounce English very well...

Vowels. There are more vowels in English than I Polish, and I don’t see the difference between some of them.

TH of course. "Do you fink dat..." :)
And -ing ending. Instead of saying "doin" I will say "doING". :)

Vowels

A, E, I, O, U

A - Animal

E - Elephant

I - Indian

O - Ongoing

U - Underground

I was thinking more about problems with the "ash" sound, as well as with the two versions of "o" and "u". :(

well i dont have any problems pronoucing english

but......polish ........oh dear

Ongoing and Underground

both gave examples of the differences in the O & U

I was thinking more about the differences between two versions of the vowel sound "U":

for example, in the words : too, blue, goose the "u" sound should be different like in the words football and good. I don't see a big difference between them. :( We only have one version of the vowel sound “u” in polish.

Arrrh I understand now, I know, how silly is English....I mean why do we have a T in Castle or Gh in Ghost or a K in Knife and the silly rules of i before e except after c and to too and two....

Thanks for the responses. I didn't realize English was so difficult but now that you've pointed it out, I can see it. Wow. Interesting.

Yes, this one was a challenge for me too. One time, the teacher sat across me - face to face, she opened her mouth and I was to position my tongue the way she did, and I was repeating the kind of 'hissing" sound after her! :)

She did it to all who had a trouble with the right sound...It was so funny, but it worked!

If you can read this number your English is OK

33,333

Thats a bloody tong twister for even an English person, you bad man!

Think

1 Breath in

2 Bite the end of your tongue and breath out.

3 say 'ink'

4 put the two together. th-----ink

5 think.

Next lesson we will do 'that'

'She sell sea shells on the sea shore' is another good test - particulalry if your name is Sean Connery

but not if you have a lisp

That would be lithp :)

A terrible affliction...:)

Yesh it would:)

No, no no! To get the "th" sound, you don't bite the end of your tongue, it gets trapped. We don't want partially tongued Poles walking around!

You place the tip of the tongue behind your upper teeth and blow out.....that's all there is to it!

Now how the hell do I pronounce Wroclaw.....Breslau was a lot easier!

Dulciana,

You're wrong. And there are two th sounds, which are pronounced in different ways.

You've been spending too much time reading World of English.

I have an image now of Pete Tong with his right hand on Blue, Left leg green. :)

Tongue...I can actually spell it was a typo (brain goes faster than fingers)

But yes a great D.J....had the pleasure of seeing him several times at the hac!

for me it was 'UNBELIEVABLE'

I teach english to some fresh Polish People and they have a problem with "refrigerator"

This Polish grl told me the same thing...I used to tease her about it...:)

They are there for pronunciation as are most hidden letters in English. If you took the t out of castle it would sound like "cas all" instead of "car sall". Obviously "car sall" is correct so we modify the pronunciation with t. Northerners (and Americans) generally have problems pronouncing words such as these due to their accents.

The h in Ghost is the modifier needed to make the o sound like "oe" instead of "o".

Hope this clears things up :-)

It would if it were correct.

my polish friends always misuse the word "teach" and "learn"