One of the first things new French learners notice early on is just how hard the language is to understand. It’s not obvious to most French learners why this is; only that French seems to become significantly harder when it moves from words on a page to words coming out of a person’s mouth.
I Corsi volenu avè una parolla cun voi
Euskal lanak ere zurekin hitz egin nahi du
Brythoniaid dywed, ‘gŵr dychryn’