I know our brains are trained in a certain way from childhood, but could someone elaborate? It seems physically impossible yet it is very much possible
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Most languages only include a subset of the sounds a human mouth can make and are used as building blocks of languages around the world. If your native tongue doesn’t make a sound that another language uses, it will require you to learn to make that sound. If your language doesn’t differentiate between multiple sounds, while another language does, you’ll probably end up pronouncing those sounds wrong.
Languages also have sort of unwritten rules about how sounds can be combined. An English speaker might look at Polish and not understand how to link so many consonants together, or at Hawaiian with its vowels. You’re likely to enforce your language’s unwritten rules on what sounds go together, or what sounds get stressed in a word on another language with different rules.
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