Passive exposure alone can enhance the learning of foreign speech sounds

(University of Jyväskylä - Jyväskylän yliopisto) Ability to understand and subsequently speak a new language requires the ability to accurately discriminate speech sounds of a given language. When we start to learn a new language the differences between speech sounds can be very difficult to perceive. With enough active practice the ability to discriminate the speech sounds enhances.

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