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Separates accent from everything else.

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Why some learners reach a very high level and others stall for years at the same point

Separating accent from everything else is the correction I would make loudest.

Accent responds to targeted work on specific sounds and prosody, and to almost nothing else. Thousands of hours of listening will not fix a sound your language does not have unless you work on it deliberately.

Which is good news: someone frustrated by their accent is not behind on the language, they have simply never trained the one thing that changes it. And it is trainable at any level.

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