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 ...

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," ...

Sam Keeley of 'Task' reveals to PEOPLE what it was like to lock in his Philadelphia accent for the HBO series, and how he ...

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 ...

In our review of the first episode of Mare Of Easttown, Joshua Alston notes out that the show’s star, Kate Winslet, “is truly killing her take on the elusive Delco accent”—a southeastern Pennsylvanian ...

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 ...

Mac M. Mertens ’26, a Crimson Editorial editor, lives in Weld Hall. I always thought that I sounded pretty neutral, geographically-undefined. It was something I was proud of. Of course, I shouted ...

In a fraught political and cultural climate, immigration, nativism, and belonging remain divisive points in American society and culture. Those concerns are particularly acute for both U.S.-born ...

"The hardest part of all of it was doing it and doing it well enough that it just sort of disappears and you don't then hear me doing it," Kate Winslet said Kate Winslet has had to learn many accents ...

Sam Keeley is breaking down what it was like to perfect his Philadelphia accent for Task — and why the process of getting it down was a "nightmare." The Irish actor, 34, revealed to PEOPLE at the New ...