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I do tell my students that the most important thing is understanding and being understood, and not to worry about perfection. I think it is important to tell them this because I know from my own limited experience that they tend to feel inferior or stupid because they can't say a particular sound w...

Does anyone have any suggestions of upto date books that can be used to help with pronuncation of words? Thanks.

Whilst it might be important for their own self-esteem to actually be able to say the L and the R sounds correctly, it doesn't make too much difference to being able to understand what they are saying if the particular word(s) are said in the context of a sentence. Sometimes it is more difficult to ...