It still fascinates me that there are over 7,000 languages and virtually, impossible to count dialects.

It is one of the wonders of the world that we can grow to understand ourselves through sounds.

I can relate to much of what you've said here. Personally, when reading a text, I often pay little attention to consonants within words and that often results in mispronounciation of those words until I hear someone else say it aloud.