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The Intelligence from The Economist

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How Do You Say Squirrel?

Many foreign speakers have a very hard time with the sounds in squirrel tak alisso. The reason that so many people learning a foreign language have such bad accents is that all their subtleties just aren't taughtvery well. Lane: If you're exposed to a language of sounds earlier in life, you're more likely to be able to nail them later in life.

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