St. Petersburg metro scheme, where the names of stations are written in Latin:
The foreigner swings his jaw when he pronounces Sennaya Ploschad.
zzz: And a foreigner in Prague won’t pull his jaw out by pronouncing Rajská zahrada, for example? Or Baishiqiao South in Beijing?
WOW: Just tried, asked a foreigner to read. The foreigner did not whisper anything, only read "the area" with the emphasis on "a".
In my student years there was such a trick that a student from Africa twisted his jaw when he was given the task to say the phrase: “I am studying at the Kharkov Polytechnic Institute.”
We have tested. It turned out as follows: "I heard of the Harkov Palitecnic Institute". The word "charkovsky" is the most difficult.
You have the wrong foreigner! It destroys all the legends :)
zzz: judging by the accent - Armenian =)