Rick Aschmann, a professional linguist, has created a comprehensive analysis of "North American English Dialects, Based on ...

CHINA, Kagoshima Prefecture--The dominance of standard Japanese in colloquial speech across the archipelago has obvious advantages. But it comes at the risk of killing off rare dialects spoken on ...

Early this month, Hong Kong’s Education Bureau deleted an article from their website after it exposed a legal grey area inhabited by spoken language and attracted much criticism from locals. The ...

Argentine Federico Demarco, a postgraduate linguistics student at Shanghai University, is traveling even further along the path of understanding dialects in Shanghai. The first Argentine to pass HSK 6 ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Despite the fact that most of America speaks one language, there are distinctive sayings that are nearly incomprehensible to people from different ...

There are traditionally eight regional dialects in China, besides putonghua (mandarin). They are Northern dialect, Beijing dialect, Shanghai dialect, Sichuan dialect, Hunan dialect, Fujian dialect, ...

People who speak a regional dialect or who have an accent may be at a disadvantage in personnel selection processes. This is the result of a new meta-analysis carried out by researchers at Freie ...

China has completed the first round of audio and video recording for its first cross-dialect database of The Epic of King ...

Regardless of their specific career path, most actors will require the services of a private dialect coach at some point. Developing a working relationship with an excellent coach on whom you can rely ...

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 ...