Is it important for the language learners to understanding the anatomy of their mouth?

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It's important for language learners to be conscientious of their mouth's anatomy as different languages have different phonemes. When we are born we are capable of producing every phoneme in linguistic existence but as we learn our native tongue we lose the ability to (readily) produce certain phonemes that we do not use. For that reason it's fundamentally important to learn possible new ways of forming, shaping and using our mouth and tongue from that which comes naturally to us as adults in order to reproduce new phonemes from a 2nd, 3rd or 4th language! The more languages you know the easier it gets to learn more and the easier it is to reproduce different phonemes across different languages. :)

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