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That's how we speak.

Конечно, можно.

Потому что стихотворный размер требует.

What do you mean? Soft consonants in English can be due to non-phonemic changes and that's all. Well, some consonants are inherently soft, like sh.
Here the combination is the opposite: a vowel + a...

Try to start pronouncing the sounds correctly yourself and you will start hearing the difference. That's how I started hearing the difference between v and w for example.

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