Re: Long vs. short vowels in English

From: Mxsmanic (mxsmanic_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 07/19/04 

Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 17:47:18 +0200

Peter T. Daniels writes:

> Yet you claim they're not interested in surmounting a "foreign accent."
>
> Perhaps you're self-deluded?

Perhaps you confuse comprehension with elimination of an accent.
Students typically want to understand spoken English fully and speak it
so that others understand them fully, but they don't care about
eliminating an accent. 

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