At first glance, you'd think Russians would have the upper hand when trying to deal with English consonant clusters. Speakers of Romance languages have nothing like it, but Russian has "Zdravstvuytye"!

But we have "th", which is hard enough on its own. And sandwiched between "s"s, it gets really hard!

If you think "months" is hard, try "fifths" and "sixths"!!!

To say the sound properly, you have to stick out your tongue and almost bite it. My 5-year-old just stopped saying "fink" and started saying "think", and he figured it out by saying it slowly and sticking his tongue out a little too far. Once he got comfortable, he stopped looking like he was giving me a raspberry.

Also know that it's hard for us to say, too. Here's one of the hardest tongue-twisters to say in the English language:

The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick.

Say that ten times fast!