>English is not really phonetic anymore, so this approach doesn't quite work well.
That seems to be one of the main components of Russian accent in ESL.
>English is not really phonetic anymore, so this approach doesn't quite work well.
That seems to be one of the main components of Russian accent in ESL.
Not really? The accent source is typical for any pair of languages: different sets of sounds. E.g. Russian doesn't quite have sounds for "th", "w" ("William"), "a" (as in "apple"), etc.