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This paper discusses how to make the environment of acquisition of foreign languages including Korean better for the higher level of students such as prospective foreign language teachers. We argue that languages are the expressions of mental reality of the native speakers, the students should be taught to understand the cognitive characteristics of the target languages, otherwise they fail to reach to the level they require. We firstly discuss how grammar, lexicology, and phonology differ one language to another, by which we urge that contrastive linguistics, language universals, language typology, and cognitive linguistics should be involved for the betterment of 2nd and foreign language acquisition. This claim will be enforced by the following section, in which how the phonology is related with cognition is discussed.