(For Polish readers, this fellow's name is pronounced KRYŚ-cian DEJ-wijs)
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An easy mnemonic for remembering how to say Trzaskowski is that it rhymes with Cegłowski
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Here's a little audio file of how to say "Trzaskowski" correctly. Usually the hardest part for American English speakers is to not stick a schwa all up in between the first two consonants, and to not aspirate the 't'. https://idlewords.com/audio/trzaskowski_howto.m4a …
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In this case that's no use to foreigners, believe me, because it doesn't help them with the 'Trz'
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I don’t know what it is about native English speakers that makes them constantly misinterpret syllable stress, but I’ve encountered it my whole life.
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Chas-KOF-ski, surely?
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No language is "written phonetically". Some languages are written as by-and-large phonemic transcriptions of a prestige dialect.
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Twitter is really the place where humor goes to die
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Luckily, I learned this via a mustard company before arriving in Chicago
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I’m still stuck on “Wigilia”. (I married into an American Polish family.)
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