>>>>About spelling fax, a true funny story. Asians have tough time pronouncing "fax.". One day my wife and a bunch of her co-workers are in the office (cubicles) and hear how an Asian co-worker keeps yelling in the phone "Ok. I will fuck you later". And keeps repeating it. Apparently whoever he was talking to, on the phone, kept asking, "What????"
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>>>I once listened to a chinese woman, a PhD in medicine, with a vocabulary in latin larger than anyone I know, who couldn't pronounce two consecutive consonants. She just had to insert a vowel in between. Make that "inasert" and "beteween".
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>>True. Even Americans have a tough time pronouncing two consecutive consonants. Many times I see my name written in various documents and emails as Dimitry (i between D and m). They think that since they can't pronounce it, I must not know how to spell my name; hence they correct it for me :)
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>In my case, I'm lucky that there's no bone inside the tongue, or else I'd be sued a lot. The fracture used to happen between l and j in my surname.
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>For those who asked how do I pronounce my surname, the standard answer was "easily".
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>On the list of things that anglophones are incapacitated for pronunciation, there are words beginning with kn, gn, pn, pt, ts... and that's not even half of the list.

I see that it goes both ways. I have heard many, many times when Slavic people butcher English pronunciation. It is normal; different mother tongue.