Sitting across from his teacher, Edgar Martinez repeated the word he couldn’t quite pronounce: “situation.” “Sit-oo-a-shun,” he said. “What happens with the tu?” asked the teacher, Lisa Mojsin, hired ...

Carolina Freedman can read and write English perfectly but says she's been embarrassed when speaking it. She says she's had people tell her they don't speak Spanish when she's speaking English. "I was ...

GREAT FALLS, Va. -- Armed with a tape recorder and endless patience, Sharon Heffley has spent the past 17 years unraveling the knot of mispronunciations and garbled syllables common to many ...

Everyone has an accent. The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association defines an accent as “the unique way that speech is pronounced by a group of people speaking the same language”. Individuals ...

Pune: Voice and accent coaching has gained popularity over the past few years. Several people working in customer service or sales and dealing with international clients prefer to have a neutral ...