Quote Originally Posted by zedeeyen View Post
And do you know what will happen if you include an in-depth explanation of palatalization in your beginner textbook? No one will buy it, they'll buy the one that teaches them how to stumble successfully through a simple conversation, because that's all they want to be able to do!
Here we can see that language learning traditions in Western countries and in Russia are really different.
I learned several foreign languages. And the first thing I checked when selecting a book in a store to learn a new language was how well the pronunciation was explained. If it was limited by a table of approximation by Russian sounds, without any articulation description, and no IPA was provided, I put that book immediately back to its shelf.