There are words I've only ever seen in writing and have no fucking clue how to pronounce.

Sometimes my partner and I disagree about the pronunciation of a word, only to eventually look it up and both be wrong.

Colonel.

Less of how hard it is to actually pronounce, more like how hard it is to believe it's pronounced that way.

Don't feel bad, everyone. English pronunciation IS difficult, though through tough thorough thought, you can do it!

Ask a German to pronounce “squirrel.”

Worcestershire sauce

When I was younger it was any word where an R is followed by an L. Girl, world, twirl.. im better at them now tho

The number of native English speakers who can't pronounce "specific" and instead say "pacific" is too damn high.

Sheet / Sheep / Shit / Ship

Rural and squirrel

"The". The "th" in "the" is the only sound in English I can think of that doesn't have a very similar counterpart in Dutch. The closest you could get using just Dutch phonemes would be "zuh" or "duh".

The th sound is honestly a bit difficult. Three will end up sounding like either tree or free, but not three. Usually I just pronounce it as a slightly weird T. I have quite a Dutch accent anyways and that just something y'all will have to deal with ;p

I always pronounced “only” as “on-lie”. I heard other people say “only” and couldn’t understand what they meant.

When I was first learning as a kid, I used to pronounce three as tree. I actually got picked on a lot because of it, because middle schoolers are assholes

I have to perform a context switch between "v" and "w" sounds, so words and phrases that contain both (e.g: "very well") sometimes end up with only "w" sounds. (My native language does not have a regular "W" sound)

But even after 20 years speaking it, English pronunciation is complete nonsense. Most of the time, you just need to memorize the words. Because trying to figure out how to say something, you also need to know if the word is borrowed from any other languages that use Latin alphabet, and then pronouce it pretending to speak that language. Simplest example: Mocha (moh-ka) and matcha (maht-cha). But there are countless borrowed words that don't change spelling in English.

English is my first language but saying "edited it" drives me crazy.

I wouldn't say struggle, but I did wonder for a while how to pronounce "anemone".

texts, clothes. consonant clusters.

Words starting with th- (th-fronting) and plurals ending in -ths, -sps, etc.

My friend has a hard time pronouncing 'teeth'. Just comes out sounding like 'tits'

Ignominious anthropomorphic pauciloquy.

I personally am having a hard time with "overwhelmingly"

Corollary. Not only I can't say it out loud, I can't even form it properly with my inner voice.