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The Importance of Accents in a Foreign Language
Every language is made up of a different set of sounds to start with, and those sounds can be difficult to learn if you don't have them in your language. Michael: There is very little good teaching on accents and all the other tricky stuff that you have to learn. Even by native speakers, they often can't explain the more subtle rules that actually make for an accent.
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