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I'm smacking myself on the forehead because I overlooked a native English example -- the difference (in some dialects of English) between "do" and "dew", or between the initial sounds of "tool" and...

And thin is by no means tin (or sin), and bad is by no means bed. But for Russians who are new to learning English, those words can seem almost like homophones!

It just takes time for the ear and...

That "ch"/"j" sound you're hearing is actually the "soft" consonant т in -те. English doesn't have the hard/soft consonant distinctions that exist in Russian, so it's common for English speakers...