OPEN A TEXTBOOK for a foreign language, and one of the first things you see is an alphabet, enumerating the letters used in the writing system and the sounds they represent. This is obviously crucial ...

Brazilian immigrant and Instagram co-founder Mike Krieger shares how he learned to sound native in English, why music and constant movement shaped his accent, and how he now uses AI (Claude) to keep ...

If you speak English with a California accent but you want to learn to speak Sindarin like a native — that is, like a Middle Earth elf — where do you start? Begin with vowel sounds, said Leith ...

Imagine you wake up and how you pronounce words suddenly sounds completely different, almost foreign, from the last time you spoke. For example, your American English accent sounds British. This might ...

Gladiator II doesn't come out until November. But the recent release of the trailer has prompted a lot of online chatter about the actors' accents — especially Denzel Washington's. The actor plays a ...