A long-awaited television series, which was released in both Mandarin and the Shanghai dialect in late December, has sparked discussions among residents, online viewers and experts over the ...

Whether someone's speech is a language or a dialect is a matter of both linguistics and politics. illust-monster/iStock/Getty Images Plus In 2022, after the start of ...

I am so glad that we are now recognised as a people - Caribbean people. In the past we were pegged on to a motherland and so came the confusion over the way we speak. Back then the leaders insisted ...

Every Friday afternoon, 8-year-old Peng Daokun takes one of his favorite courses at school — Changsha dialect course. The third grader at the Affiliated Primary School of Hunan Normal University in ...

GUANGDONG, South China — For three centuries, quiet Zurong Village at the southernmost tip of China’s mainland hasn’t had much to offer visitors, aside from tropical fruit. But that all changed when a ...

Languages move and inspire UB doctoral student Kristen D’Alessandro Merii. As early as her teenage years, she remembers her fascination with high school Spanish, how she learned “a little of ...

Bilingual Spanish and English speakers make up the majority of the Miami-Dade County population. As a result, phrases like "throw a photo" and "make a party" have become commonplace in the region. One ...

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 ...

Dialect coaches give great interviews. They'll talk eagerly to you about the "marvelous ears" of Nicole Kidman, Tom Hanks, and Lily Tomlin. They'll run on about "cup" vowels and vowel shifts and ...