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No dictionary can accurately reproduce tiny variations in pronunciation, volume, and stress. You must listen to a language before you can fully experience its idiosyncrasies. Being able to converse with a native speaker who uses correct pronunciation and grammar is the best way to accomplish this. However, well-produced MP3s, CDs, and other types of foreign language recordings will work well if you know how to use them properly. This article provides several tips for utilizing your audio recordings to squeeze the most benefit out of every listening experience.The Brain Creates a Map to Familiar Sounds The brains of infants and young children catalogue all the sounds they hear. As we grow older, our brains associate those sounds with words, and later with specific spellings after we learn to read. Many foreign languages contain sounds we do not use in our native language. When our brains hear these unfamiliar sounds, they d lipobind raw from the existing map, and tell our ears that we are hearing something we already know. Take for example, the German words ‘Bach’ and ‘mich’. The ‘ch’ combinations are for different sounds that do not have an equivalent in English. An English speaker might hear ‘back’ and ‘meesh’. Even though both German words end with the same letters, the pronunciations are different. Increasing treble levels on a recording often makes it easier to distinguish the differences in such sounds. Adjusting treble also makes it easier to decipher sounds such as ‘f’ and ‘s’ in words like ‘auffahren’ and ‘ausfahren’; ‘m’ and ‘n’ in words such as ‘dem’ and ‘den’; or to pick out tiny variations in vowel combinations like ‘Meer’ and ‘mehr’.Coping with Different Volume Levels If you have purchased or downloaded foreign language audio from different sources, you probably need to adjust the volume when you switch from one recording to another.