At least in my dialect/accent of English

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    The french word for squirrel (écureuil) is equally hard for English speakers to pronounce as the English word is for French speakers

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      The German word for squirrel (Eichhörnchen) is hard to pronounce for French and English speakers in different ways.

      Though I have to admit squirrel/écureuil is the cooler pair because it seems to me they both derive from the same root but divererged in a way to make them difficult to pronounce for the other one.

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        To be fair, Eichhörnchen and écureuil seem to have a similar root as well even though French is a Latin language and German is not

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      it’s funny how I as a Ukrainian can easily clearly pronounce both English and French variants, while my language is from even a different language group :D