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I think you might be overestimating the importance of hearing specific but rarely used words when it comes to pronouncing them. When your native language lacks specific syllables, it can be quite difficult to incorporate them without practise. This isn't particularly helped by English basically having zero logic when it comes to knowing how to pronounce a word you aren't familiar with.
I have an Irish friend whose surname I'm completely unable to pronounce correctly even after hearing it plenty of times. The syllables that a native speaker hears don't map 1:1 to the syllables that I hear (or even know) and no amount of listening is going to help with that. And then there's things like V vs W and names like Vicky vs Vicki which I hear as exactly the same but apparently consistently mispronounced (even after the person tried to teach me how!).
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