Yes, people pronounce things differently, it is called having dialects. If English were the tiniest bit more phonemic you'd even be able to represent that orthographically, but usually most dialectal issues fall right through English orthography choice of "BUT HISTORY!!!"WorldisQuiet5256 wrote:What we have is pretty much a He said, She Said.Anteroinen wrote: None of these are a hundred percent certain, a as in apple being the worst offender. Vowels have heavy trickery in their quality. And c as in cats? Do you know that the c in cats is pronounced differently from the c in tick? Did you take it to consideration? B and d are relatively safe but some people over-aspirate them, some reduce ds to glottal stops...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3E8mTquePU
I might even go as far as doubt the teacher's pronunciation, because Polish isn't at all easy to pronounce. However, I think it is much more likely that you as an amateur, like me to be honest, were not able to hear the difference between /a/ and /ɑ/ or /ʃ/ and /ʂ̻/. This is nothing to be ashamed of, it is altogether normal not to perceive all speech sounds. I cannot tell apart /v/ and /ʋ/ and probably mispronounce English words like "veal" with /ʋ/ rather than /v/ but I do try.