Free self-awareness platform recruiting native speakers to coach and translate for underserved language communities worldwide Most self-help content only exists in English. Entire communities are ...

Post written by Aneta Pavlenko. As the second season of the hit Israeli TV show Fauda is taking the world by storm, conversations among the fans turn, once again, to its linguistic premises: Can ...

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 ...

Almost from the moment of birth, human beings are able to distinguish between speakers of their native language and speakers of all other languages. We have a hard-wired preference for our own ...

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, ...

We already knew that generative AI replicates human biases, but it turns out the tools meant to identify it do, as well. Reading time 3 minutes Programs meant to distinguish chatbot text from human ...

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 ...

Researchers at MIT have created a database of annotated sentences written by non-native English speakers, the university announced in a press release Friday, in an effort to improve the ways in which ...

The following post was published on the Knowledge@Wharton website on December 17, 2013. In an interview this summer, Paul Graham, co-founder of Y Combinator — the tech accelerator that has funded a ...

I was born and raised in Rome, so Italian is my native language. Now I live in the US, and I’m basically bilingual. Yet, when I hear other people speak English with an accent, sometimes I have a hard ...