Dear PhoNet Members
 
I'd like to invite you all to take part in the following game – just to explore the opportunity of having so many speakers of different languages gathered together. Could you please choose and describe up to three phonetic phenomena found in your native language (accent) that strike you as peculiar to it, particularly interesting from the general linguistic point of view, or likely to be the cause of acute problems for a foreign learner? I'm going to cover three such features of Polish: the fricative/affricate series, complex consonant clusters, and the phonetic interpretation of Polish digraphs and diacritics – probably in three different postings. If you read them with care and do some elementary practice, you should be able to impress your friends and families with your fluent Polish pronunciation.
 
Piotr Gąsiorowski