The most difficult language to learn is the one that you first learned. A native speaker does not recognize the idiosyncrasies which makes it curious to non-native.
The non-native speaker can pose “Why” questions. They may recognize a word from their language that has a curious pronunciation. For example, in a reading exercise, the word “calliope” was with “-ee”, at the end.
The reader, French, knew the word was the same but was spoken differently. That question started a 58 year search for words of this “end in E” pronunciation.
Here is the list:
https://tinyurl.com/y5azwsfs
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