Research fellow Ng Yuen Yi notes that in academic writing, Hokkien, Teochew, Hakka, Cantonese and Hainanese may be described ...

A visit to Avery Island, home of Tabasco, offering a crash course in Cajun dialect while exploring Louisiana’s culture and ...

If you speak English with a California accent but you want to learn to speak Sindarin like a native — that is, like a Middle Earth elf — where do you start? Begin with vowel sounds, said Leith ...

Food, music, intergenerational activities and role-playing make dialect learning fun. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read ...

Geordie is one of the oldest and best loved of Britain's dialects. But modern times mean that some Geordie words are dying out and North Easterners are changing how they speak. Inside Out gets ...

A British Library project preserves words used in different parts of the country. How many of them can you recognise? Have you ever been called mardy, been mithered, complained of someone being nesh, ...

As an actor, working privately with a professional dialect coach can be the most rapid, reliable, trouble-free method for mastering an accent, and there’s no disputing that the addition of a key ...

Sometimes, accents speak louder than words. Just ask the Georgetown University researchers who have been studying the way people here in Washington speak. When they hosted a couple of forums this ...

Much like many industry professionals, Pamela Vanderway first wanted to be an actor, but over the course of her training, a new passion surfaced. “I loved the process of acting, I love what actors do, ...

Geordie is one of the oldest and best loved of Britain's dialects. But modern times mean that some Geordie words are dying out and North Easterners are changing how they speak. Inside Out gets ...