Excerpt from Practical Guide to the Russian AccentThe importance Of the accent for the student Of Russian is very great, since his spoken Russian will only be easily intelligible when he has formed the habit Of pronouncing the accented syllables with the proper stress. Until he has acquired this habit he will have greater difficulty in comprehending the sounds Of Russian as spoken by a native.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.