Mastering English can be tough for many learners. And choosing the right accent can add an extra challenge. But which English accent is easiest to learn: British or American? The answer is not as ...

Watch as a group of British students in classic school uniforms take on the American accent challenge! From pronouncing words ...

For actor Sam Worthington, starring in James Cameron’s Avatar was a life-changing experience. The film not only boosted his profile, but he had the chance to work with a prolific director with a ...

Scholar and novelist Hernan Diaz was born in Argentina, grew up in Sweden, and spent most of his life in the United States. To some degree, he says, he has a foreign accent in every language he speaks ...

Imagine Mike Myers’ Shrek without a Scottish inflection, or Idris Elba’s Stringer Bell in “The Wire” walking around Baltimore with the actor’s natural English lilt. When done well, accents expand an ...

Perception of second language speech is easier when it is spoken in the accent of the listener and not in the "original" accent of that language, shows a new study. Perception of second language ...

When local writer JoAnna Loviglio described the Philadelphia accent for the Washington Post a couple years ago, she summed it up this way: With apologies to comedian Jeff Foxworthy, you might be a ...

BOSTON (WHDH) - The Boston accent has been ranked the “most annoying” accent in America, according to a new study. The language learning platform Preply says it recently surveyed 2,000 Americans to ...

It would behoove any cinephile to learn Alicia Vikander’s name, and learn it quickly. The Swedish actor first hit the states in Joe Wright’s 2012 “Anna Karenina” and since then she’s been working ...