"Pająk i mysz."

Translation: A spider and a mouse.

[CromchyChipDip]

And depending on whether or not we're in Australia, the spider will make quick work of the mouse.

[Kiralee23]

Well dont use the and symbol &, it won't recognize it ☹️

[Kal-in]

Is the /P/ often missing from the start of words? I'm hearing this from some of the audio samples.

[vytah]

It's not missing, at least not in this recording.

Are you a native English speaker? There are two things different here:

• English aspirates word-initial P, T and K (adds a small H sound after them), and Polish doesn't. You expect that H and it's not there, so you think something is misssing.

• some dialects of English usually pronounce P with more strength than B (fortis vs lenis), while in Polish those sounds don't differ in strength. A weaker Polish P may appear to you as too weak.

[Kal-in]

Oh so the p isn't aspirated?
Good to know! All right, I'll have a good listen out for these.
^^

[Alex140662]

Wasn't this a Stereophonic song? I think they were lovers

[Denegirl44]

Literally sounded like i yonk i mesh

[alik1989]

Initial plosives like /p/ are unaspirated in Polish and are therefore hard to hear for some English speakers in the beginning.

Distinguishing e and y is should also be easier after a while.

But the recordings are correct.

[KordOmelian]

The "i" between the words sounded like "je" to me as in, "The spider is eating the mouse." Whoops!

[Juan738101]

So is there always an "n" sound between ą and k?

[Jellei]

I am not the best person to explain phonetics, but I guess we could say that "ą" sounds a bit like "om" or "on".