American Dialect The long awaited dispute of what is the ‘right’ way to say a sweetened carbonated beverage is in, finally. Could it be soda, pop, or coke? And the answer,according to one graduate student's American dialect research is: All of the above! That is, depending on where you are in America-due to one's American [...]
Second to English and Chinese, Spanish is one of the widest spoken languages in the world, with over twenty nations claiming it as their official tongue. One of the Romance Languages (descended from common or "vulgar" Latin), Spanish shares syntax similarities to Italian, French, Romanian and Portuguese, among others. The modern Castilian region of [...]
The Value of An American Education In today's global economy, international MBA students are choosing to study in America, believing the American educational experience combined with a learned comfort level interpreting the American accent will place them ahead of equally qualified job candidates. Every year more than 1,400,000 exchange students apply to study abroad, with [...]
Learning to speak a different language or accent is bound to be a difficult task from the start. It is such a challenge because individuals are naturally accustomed to the sounds and language they learned as children. If you are a foreign speaker who decides to learn English from someone who speaks the same native [...]
Corporate executives, living in or traveling to the U.S. on a regular basis to forge relationships with clients, will find accent reduction classes beneficial. The classes will allow them to be understood by the widest possible audience and lessen the chance an important piece of information will be misinterpreted. How Can Accent Reduction Classes Help? [...]
