Learning languages has led me to the belief that there aren't any difficult sounds in any language. I figured any sound that is or was hard to pronounce it would either be discarded, removed or would not survive in the language. Thake this English word: Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis which is a lung disease, Would you try to say the long word or would you just say lung disease? and which of the two are used most commonly and understood?
I feel that the difficulty comes from the fact that the way you speak in your native tongue stops you from learning the new language. My opinions on why they stop you are because we all have certain things we say or do and then we want to say or do them exactly in the target language. Things don't translate! Just simply understand that. When you speak in a foreign language, that language has to be native in your mind and in your mind it can't be foreign. The body will reject any and all foreign objects. Even if you don't speak the language natively don't try to translate. Because things don't translate period. You have equivalent meanings I will explain in Portuguese you have Saudade. I know how to use it, I know how to express myself with it but I can't translate it into English or vice-versa not that I'm incapable of doing it but because it just doesn't translate. Take this BZ PT sentence:
Tenho saudade de voce
I feel longing of you
Things don't translate! In English I say I miss you and in BZ PT I say Tenho Saudade de voce
Take another example, jokes, Jokes do not translate well either into and from any language. If you like jokes then learn jokes in that language and tell those. The trick I use, I call it a trick because that's exactly what I do, I trick myself into believing I am a person of that language and I don't rely on my old habits of my original tongue but develop habits of the new tongue I am learning. You have to develop and form new habits that will lead you to fluency in a new language. You have to keep this going and forming more and more new habits in the new tongue. Keep this going until well you can pronounce words fluently.
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