Talk:Cast/@comment-25632218-20150717151914/@comment-5288784-20150717203423

It's tricky to explain, since few languages makes this distinction, but "Ć" is softer, more palatized, while "Cz/Č" is harder. Various languages place that sound at differing places on the softness scale and it's not always well documented. Slovak "Č" and Polish "Cz" are alike, while Czech "Č" is somewhere in the middle between Polish "Cz" and "Ć".

It's like with English "Sh" which is midway between Polish "Sz" and "Ś".