I would say 2. is pretty underrated; especially anglo saxon folk (and in my experience, Americans being the worst) speaking any foreign language sound absolutel

I would say 2. is pretty underrated; especially anglo saxon folk (and in my experience, Americans being the worst) speaking any foreign language sound absolutely like they skipped this step entirely. Funny things like Grissom in CSI supposedly being a German expert and managing to pronounce literally every word wrong to people coming to Paris with college French and have people look at them like they are aliens. The knowledge of grammar is there but the pronunciation is off by miles. My first and last name are not sounds in English apparently and polite people try to pronounce them correctly (I do not really care how it is pronounced; I am not important) them, English and American (and Australian) cannot even hear side by side that they pronounce it really differently. They ask me to record the correct and then their way and they cannot even hear they are pronouncing it differently. How can you learn a language correctly like that? It must be practice right? I came here from another thread because I am sure this is the same as me learning Mandarin; I have been ordering green forks instead of green tea for a long time...