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Learners of foreign languages can hear the errors in pronunciation that fellow learners tend to make, but continue to fall foul of them themselves despite years of practice. A new study of shows that everyone believes their own pronunciation to be best. (1)
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Do you see?
Think of it too hard and you will not be able to. For listening entails speaking. Speaking the same things that others say inside your own head. You only do that only when others speak. But when you do speak at the end, there is no sound to listen to. It is just you and the cosmos.
Shaped in silence.
Out of your every word…
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