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Pronouncing a language is a skill. Every normal person is expert in the skill of pronouncing his own language, but few people are even moderately (36) at pronouncing foreign languages. The fundamental reason why people in general do not speak foreign languages very much better than they do is that they fail to grasp the true nature of the problem of learning to pronounce, and (37) never set about dealing with it in the right way. For too many people fail to realize that pronouncing a foreign language is a skill, one that needs careful training of a special kind, and one that cannot be (38) by just leaving it to take care of itself, even teachers of language, while (39) the importance of a good accent, tend to (40) , in their practical teaching, the branch of study concerned with speaking the language. So English pronunciation must be taught; teacher should be prepared to (41) some of the lesson time to this, and by his whole attitude to the subject should get the student to feel that here is a matter (42) of receiving his close attention. So, there should be (43) when other aspects of English, such as grammar or spelling, are allowed for the moment to take second place. (44) . It is important that the teacher should be in possession of the necessary information. It is possible to get from books some idea of the mechanics of speech, and of what we call general phonetic theory. (45) , between the speech habits of English people and those of your students. (46) , and lesson time spent on pronunciation may well be time wasted.