A colleague had told me how to say hello in Polish before I went to Poland a few years ago. In Polish, the word for hello is cześć pronounced "chesh-ch," but I thought my colleague had said teść ("tesh-ch"). As a result, I ended up introducing myself to people by saying "father-in-law" instead of "hello".
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These words are the one of the most difficult ones in Polish for foreigners. People have many troubles with such words, which include Polish diacritic marks ...
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