Workers at a federal laboratory in Tennessee can talk with Southern accents to their heart’s content after managers scrapped an idea to help them “fix” their natural dialects. Last week, the Oak Ridge ...

The foreign accents that charm many Americans can also be a major barrier to getting hired after graduation. In order for international students with heavy accents to improve their employment chances ...

(WSVN) - Hearing someone speak with an accent is not unusual in South Florida, so one city employee was shocked when she was told to get rid of hers. 7’s Brian Entin has our special report “War of ...

As part of a comprehensive communications coaching service, The Accent Coach now offers clients a full communications training as part of regular lessons. I want every one of my clients to have access ...

When Xiaoyun Shen's boss asked her to take an accent reduction class she was a little flustered. "I didn't know I had a problem" said Shen a 43-year-old senior scientist at the biotech company ...

Theresa Cinotti, a clinical assistant professor at UB’s Speech-Language and Hearing Clinic, finds accented English beautiful. An accent, she says, is something distinct and individual, a clue to a ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — John de Nugent is standing in front of his class with one thing on his mind, the letter “r.” He’ll eventually tackle the other letters and sounds that elude his students, but for ...

Communication issues are nothing new for individuals for whom English is a second language. Communication issues are nothing new for individuals for whom English is a second language. But when they ...

Sitting across from his teacher, Edgar Martinez repeated the word he couldn’t quite pronounce: “situation.” “Sit-oo-a-shun,” he said. “What happens with the tu?” asked the teacher, Lisa Mojsin, hired ...

When Jean Eloi spoke English at work, words like “probably” often sounded more like “pwabably” and the-51-year-old’s accented speech was too fast for his colleagues to keep up. So when his manager ...