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Learners often understand teachers but struggle with native speakers in real life. This isn’t about intelligence or effort.

In his 1913 play Pygmalion, George Bernard Shaw wrote: “It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.” While Shaw was referring to ...

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, ...

In a paper published on the preprint server Arxiv.org, researchers at the University of College Dublin investigated how non-native English users experience voice assistants -- specifically Google ...

Picture this: A group of nonnative English speakers are in a room. There's someone from Germany, Singapore, South Korea, Nigeria and France. They're having a great ...

The shift to remote work means we have a greater ability and opportunity to work with people worldwide, who may not be native English-speakers. Here are five things you can do to ensure those ...

If someone asked you to read this text aloud in a French accent or an Italian one, you would likely understand what that means and be able to produce some version of it, even if it’s not entirely ...

A recent study conducted last October at the University of Birmingham found that exposure to poor grammar can lead to physical stress. The researchers studied 41 adults and exposed them to grammatical ...