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And only one thing to add. A key tip from me as a multilingual, English speaker who often presents to international audiences with as many as 40-50 different languages ‘in the room’-

You can forget everything except the end consonant, when speaking in English, and stil be understood.

The hard T’s, d’s, g’s, f’s, p’s etc. are the key sounds that break up the words for the audience, and make it easy for them to ‘get’ the 30% of those words from which they can work out the meaning of the whole thing.

If you’re articulating those end sounds, then speed, accent and understandability look after themselves.

Hope that helps.

Jim