Key:Polish pronunciation respelling: Difference between revisions
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Most Polish consonants are quite easy to pronounce on their own. The trouble is that they tend to cluster in ways in which they never do in English. | Most Polish consonants are quite easy to pronounce on their own. The trouble is that they tend to cluster in ways in which they never do in English. | ||
Let's take ''wstrząs'' (meaning "shock"), for example. It | Let's take ''wstrząs'' (meaning "shock"), for example. It may look like a mouthful and I'm not going to lie to you; it is one. In our respelling scheme, it becomes {{pron|f s t sh aw n s|link=no}}, which is still rather daunting. It may help to insert very short ''uh'' sounds in between the consonants, as in {{pron|fuh·suh·tuh·<u>shawns</u>|link=no}}. But keep in mind that, ideally, this should be pronounced as only one syllable. | ||
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