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 ...

Since he came to the U.S. from India six years ago, Sudhi Chada has struggled with some of the trickier consonants in American English, particularly the “th” in, say, “thousand.”Native English ...

It seems like a nightmare. You're talking to frowning clients and coworkers who say they can't understand a word you're saying, no matter what words you use to explain. That's a daily reality for many ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — John de Nugent is standing in front of his class with one thing on his mind, the letter “r.” He’ll eventually tackle the other letters and sounds that elude his students, but for ...

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Whenever Mariya Miloshevych met new people, they were left with the impression that she ate borscht, drank Vodka and went by Natasha. These were not tidbits the 21-year-old revealed in conversation ...

In response to the article suggesting that UCLA should offer accent reduction programs to combat accent discrimination, I express my concern that such a program would not invest in international ...

(WSVN) - Hearing someone speak with an accent is not unusual in South Florida, so one city employee was shocked when she was told to get rid of hers. 7’s Brian Entin has our special report “War of ...