The only polish word a foreigner won't ever say correctly :P

or: Szedł Sasza suchą szosą susząc sobie szorty ; )

ok ok that powył one is tricksy (am going to be waking up in the night practising it - have just done it about 100 times, but the usual slowly-slowly-quicker-quick method doesn't seem to be working ; )

try
red lorry yellow lorry
very quickly a lot of times

What a surprise, this must be the billionth time I've heard that one. Stół bez nóg i tyle!!

that's why the Japanese don't bother with r/l distinction :)
they have only one sound for it (r, I think)

red rorry, yerrow rorry

Many of my fellow learners of Polish shed 'tears' over writing/pronouncing 'łzy' correctly. - - :):)!!! LOL

Some of these Polish consonant clusters rival the palatalized groupings of equally simple, everyday words in Russian, e.g. 'dver' (drzwi).

łyżwy.... księżyc....wyżłobiony....

Sorry, but I don't find these words difficult. Not on their own anyway.

chcę isn't too bad, but other forms of the same word are a ******* to say right.
It's those consonant clusters that pose the most problems and words mixing

ś, ć, ź - type consonants with

sz, cz, rz type ones.

That is tricky.

special one: "zamarznięty" what means freezed, remember to say r and z as separate letters

you mean frozen ;). some Polish people tend to say zamarźnięty as well.

ohhh yes, i mean frozen :)

It's so misleading

Yeah, this could be a bit hard, but just say the "r" "z" like in the word "Tarzan" ex: wrzuta.pl/audio/3q0cWOXaIP/

The Polish word for arrow springs to mind. That's a bugger to get right :(

Do you mean strzała?

Yes, it's like a pressed sound. When foreigners pronounce ptak, we elongate it too much. The same with strzała. 2 beers and all is well :)

źrebiątko
zażółć gęślą jaźń

'przyjaźń' used to cause me terrible problems--:)

Tak?....

Ależ tak, Shellyczko! Wyobrazasz tobie 'PSCHII -YAH -DZ'NN', Boż mój!! Man, I get tired just remembering how all tongue-twisted up my poor tongue used to get years ago when first began studying Polish formally. I'd come home from class both frustrated as well as exhausted, yet emboldened and revived by the consolation that half the world, (not only the Poles) struggle the same way with English...and most never really make it either-::) LOL

It must be the affect you have on them, personally I've not really come across it ;-)

Actually the hardest word I found was: Przepraszam, my "teacher" was so proud when I finally managed it...actually I think relieved is probably the right word, it meant we could move on to other words :)

I frankly agree with Shelley! It's the same as with many a young lusty male visitor to Sweden and the first word they want to learn how to pronounce in Swedish is 'knulla'. Which country are you from?

"Boże mój"!, sorry-:) LOL

he he .. easy ;0)

My teacher tried 'UWWOOTS' for '£ódź', among numerous other, what she titled "phonmonics" or mnemonic tricks/allusions to different phonetic symbols which often translate in to different, yet familiar, sounds, even words, in the learner's native language.

It worked-:):)