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One of the problems with English for speakers of other languages is that English is a stress-timed language while most languages are syllable-timed. What this means is that in a typical English sentence the stressed syllables come at roughly equal intervals and everything else is squidged in as best as may be, while most other languages are syllable-timed, each syllable gets an equal amount of time, hence their rat-tat-tat sound to English speakers.
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