In his 1913 play Pygmalion, George Bernard Shaw wrote: “It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.” While Shaw was referring to ...

Picture this: A group of nonnative English speakers are in a room. There's someone from Germany, Singapore, South Korea, Nigeria and France. They're having a great ...

Researchers at MIT have created a database of annotated sentences written by non-native English speakers, the university announced in a press release Friday, in an effort to improve the ways in which ...

Almost from the moment of birth, human beings are able to distinguish between speakers of their native language and speakers of all other languages. We have a hard-wired preference for our own ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Pronunciation accuracy may not be the most important thing for making non-native English speakers easier to understand, but rather it is their fluency, including fewer pauses, ...

The following post was published on the Knowledge@Wharton website on December 17, 2013. In an interview this summer, Paul Graham, co-founder of Y Combinator — the tech accelerator that has funded a ...

Learn how to pronounce English like a native speaker! This video covers linking, intrusion, elision, assimilation, and ...

Mastering English slang is key to sounding more like a native speaker, enhancing casual conversations and cultural understanding. Context is crucial, as slang varies by region, age, and social setting ...

I was born and raised in Rome, so Italian is my native language. Now I live in the US, and I’m basically bilingual. Yet, when I hear other people speak English with an accent, sometimes I have a hard ...