Believe it or not it’s usually not that hard to string like 3 unfamiliar syllables together if you take a few seconds to put in literally any effort you fuck

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    6 days ago

    i’m pretty sure that with 30 minutes of “work” (reading the wiki page on polish orthography + watching 2 videos on basic polish spelling/pronunciation on youtube) you can get to a point where you can slowly work out polish words well enough that someone who actually speaks polish will know what you mean. it’s not that hard.

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        6 days ago

        yeah but it’s not contextless, it’s uh, most letters are pronounced how you’d expect (you have to expect the correct things) except these: <list of weird shit>

        like, you never have to explain that k means k in polish, german, english, … this is just expected.
        b is likewise pretty stable, and so are d, t, f, g, h, j, l, m, n, p, r, s, x, z, v. people also tend to have an idea of a e i o u that is good enough to start with.

        and so you only really have to learn the specifics, like what c, w, y mean and are there any extremely weird choices? (there usually are a few in every language)

        of course, this gets worse when the other language has sounds you’re entirely unfamiliar with and dont know how to approximate