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Of the learners I've taught, it's tended to be Spanish spekers who have the greatest problems arriving at a level of accuracy which is intelligible. Interestingly, one of their problems is also final consonant clusters - in this case with /t/ or /d/, as in "test" or "laughed".
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Speakers of Thai, Vietnamese and Cambodian seem to have difficulties with final consonants no matter what they are, which makes me think that they have the most chronic pronunciation. (As we would if we tried to speak Vietnamese.) I've always found Spanish speakers quite intelligible, although I have never taught them at a beginner level.