Regional accents help All 88 children who participated in the study were German speakers, some of them bilingual or multilingual. The researchers also asked how often per week each child hears ...
I’m sharing a fun accent challenge, showing how we say common words in Eastern Kentucky. I’ll go through everyday items and ...
BRIDGEPORT -- Griselle Lopez and Alberto Santiago converse briefly in Spanish, their native tongue, before pulling their chairs together to rehearse a brief monologue in Mandarin Chinese. "OK, guys," ...
From the moment we are born (and even before that, in utero), we tune into the languages around us. This includes the accents they are spoken in. Studies have found that infants show a preference for ...
Tim Matheson’s recent joke comparing First Ladies maybe funny, but to imply that Melania Trump doesn’t speak English cuts deep those of us that struggled to learn English as legal immigrants. Learning ...
Kate Winslet has had to learn many accents during her career, but the one she had to master for her latest role may have stood out as being one of the hardest. "It's interesting because I realize that ...