"Pająk i mysz."

Translation: A spider and a mouse.

[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.
^^

[Suprnova123]

Why does Duolingo let you type spider and mouse instead of A Spider and A mouse? It allows me to type spider and mouse like it's a twisted version of cat and mouse. O_o

[Kira34215]

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