Excerpt from English Sounds for Foreign Tongues, Vol. 23: A Drill Book, December, 1918 The problem of the student of foreign languages is the acquisition of new habits of speech. Not only is he accustomed to express his thought in certain long-used words and phrases, but these words and phrases are uttered by means of movements of the speech organs which during long years of repeti tion have become involuntary. These articulatory habits are called the basis of articulation or the phonetic basis of a language.' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.