>>>>There's just a few things I managed to learn - how to pronounce the throaty G
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>>>Actaully the G is not to hard for anyone who speaks spanish as it is more or less the same as they pronounce the j in the name josé.
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>Easy for a Liverpudlian like me - pronunciation of the letter "k" or "ck", as in look at that = loochhhh a' da'

Kays are distinctly different in sound from aitches, IMO. If we're talking about aitches and you say "easy, pronounce it as a kay"... I wonder whether I'd understand you speaking :).

>>Now you bring some memories... when I was 17, I practiced that particular one, and when I got it right, two nice Dutch girls kissed me as a reward :).
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>Now you're older you'd expect a little extra, hein?

I expected it then, not now :).

>>>I don't know of any english words that sound like 'a', 'u' or 'ui'
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>>There's only one English word that I know off the top of my head, where u is read as short u - butcher. In all other cases it's read as short ah, or as yu. There's no way to spell it out so an English speaker would pronounce it right, you always need an explanation.
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>How about much, such, clutch, fun, smut, but, butter, dull, full, gull, gum, gun, hun, nun, pun, ....?
>All pronounced as in butcher.

Huh? I hear all these as short "ah", not as short "oo".

There's a story about two Belgrade reporters from London, 80 years ago, who got into a dispute about pronunciation of "such". A said "sač", and B said "soč". They wrote the word on a piece of paper and asked the first gentleman they met to read it. When they heard him, they turned to each other at said at the same time: "You see?"