Education

This is due to the fact that pronunciation, stress, and rhythm are rarely taught properly. When you open a foreign language textbook, one of the first things you'll encounter is an alphabet, which lists all of the letters in the writing system as well as the sounds they represent. This is obviously critical for systems that are unknown, such as Greek or Russian. Even in languages that use the Latin alphabet, the book will explain how diacritics like accent marks influence the pronunciation of...