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How to speak fast and understand native speakers (Part IX)

Learn to speak American English fluently! Discover the subtle nuances and pronunciation tips to help you sound like a native speaker and improve your understanding. Jimmy Kimmel’s late night show ...
Purdue University

Study: Fluency outweighs pronunciation for understanding non-native English speakers

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, ...
Briefly

“This Is Valid”: Self-Proclaimed Non-Native English Speaker’s Video Message to Recruiters Moves SA

A woman's powerful video asking recruiters to look past accents when hiring non-native English speakers sparked a debate about interview pressures.
Salon

Are artificial intelligence detectors biased against non-native English speakers?

Artificial intelligence programs that can generate text at the click of a button are becoming prolific, with the most popular among them services like ChatGPT, which boasts hundreds of millions of ...
Inside Higher Ed

The ‘Native Speaker’ Fallacy

We need to stop telling our students to have their essays checked by a native English speaker. It doesn’t help them, sometimes harms them, and perpetuates a false narrative about writing and language.
The New York Times

When It Doesn’t Help to Speak the Language: The Fulbright-Hays Fellowship

An Education Department regulation penalizes Fulbright-Hays applicants if they grew up speaking the language of their proposed country for research. Lawsuits have followed. By Erica L. Green ...
Business Insider

An AI detector mislabeled nearly every essay written by a non-native English speaker as being written by a bot

Researchers found popular GPT-detectors flagged essays by non-native English speakers as AI-written. One detection system marked almost 98% of their essays as AI-generated text. The findings add to ...