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Some will argue that accuracy should come first and not fluency. Taking the clue from nature, however, we find that children attain fluency first, and that sometimes many years elapse before all their inaccuracies clear away. It is not uncommon to find children who say “fink” for think, “den” for then, and who make other like mistakes, yet no one would reprove them for their fluency. But in the case of adults, the objector further argues, his mistakes are likely to become fixed so that he never gets over them. Accuracy must come first.

Such an objector should note that accuracy of construction must be absolutely insisted on from the very first, and that every sentence learned as a model must be perfectly correct. But as regards the problem of accuracy of pronunciation and rhythm, that is another matter. The only way to learn accuracy is by being fluent, for fluency is an integral part of accuracy. He who does not sing to time is inaccurate. He who does not speak to speed is also inaccurate. The pupil is at the beginning very inaccurate in his whole pronunciation–in his timbre, his time, his individual sounds and in his sentence cadences. If we give his initial pronunciation a value of one-third, we have two-thirds of a deficit. Now, if he is trained in fluency on a one-third plane, he remains unintelligible to the people. At a standard of one-half he is fairly intelligible, and at three-fourths he is acceptable to well-nigh all. Will it not be better to hold him up till, by and by, he may begin on the “one-half” or “three-fourths” plane?

Many say it will. That it will not be advantageous to do is apparent from results and from the factors in the case. We must learn to talk by talking. We cannot learn to swim before we go into the water. The reason we do not talk on the three-quarter plane at the outset is because we have an untrained ear and an unpracticed tongue, and so do not conceive the sounds as they actually occur, nor, when we do, find the ability to reproduce them. The remedy is to take up daily systematic training which will in the course of six months train our ear and tongue, and enable us to discriminate clearly and to reproduce accurately. The ear is the guide of the tongue.

Recognition of failure is the first step toward success, but some foreign residents are so far from such recognition as to say: ” These people do not understand their own language.” True enough! Not as spoken by a raw foreigner.

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