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It may seem funny to foreigners, but that is universal. Japanese or RP British also sounds funny to the Dutch (and the Dutch to them)

I think part of it is that you can't properly pronounce it and didn't grew up with it. That's the same thing what happens to foreigners who speak Chinese or RP English.

When I (as a Dutch) speak RP English, I tend to devoice my consonants (I am working on it, at the expense of fluency). That's because we do not have voiced consonants in Dutch. We use /bet/ to indicate the thing you sleep in, instead of /bed/. They mean the same thing, but /bed/ sounds weird to other Dutch.

Another "weird" thing is the Dutch word "bank". It means bench and bank. it is usually clear from the context which one is meant.

That might also be a reason.

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