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Discover the Key To Learning Pronunciation

Gabriel Wyner · by 18 Jul 2019

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  1. Our reading

    The belief that an adult can no longer learn a good accent is false: singers and actors do it routinely.

    Their wordsBut that can’t possibly be true. Singers and actors learn new accents all the time, and they’re not, on average, smarter than everyone else (and they certainly don’t all start before the age of 7).

  2. Our reading

    Failing to hear a language's sounds is what makes its words impossible to remember.

    Their wordsFor one, if you don’t learn to hear the sounds in a new language, you’re doomed to have a hard time remembering it.

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