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by YjSe2GMQ 2637 days ago
Polish pronunciation is actually incredibly easy, there's a direct mapping (a mathematical function) from a simple partition of letters to phonems. Unlike in English, where we have weirdnesses like "vehicle" or "colonel". There's a price to pay for quick and massive import of words, lack of centralized language development coordination body and conquering the global stage of accents, I reckon.

Example for the town: Mszczonów -> Mshchonooff (Americanized).

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It’s not easy, it’s very very hard, even for other slavs, but it’s very predictable based on spelling.
I blame the Poles for the muteness of their non-slav neighbors.
Ah now I finally got it! Nemtsy, makes sense.