Arizona has its fair share of place names that outsiders and even locals struggle to pronounce. But one group claims this spot is the hardest.

Arizona has its fair share of place names that outsiders, and sometimes even locals, struggle to pronounce. If you’ve ever pronounced Prescott as “Press-scott” instead of “Press-kitt” or called the ...

Chinese brands are moving into foreign markets as never before. The way they are perceived when they arrive depends not just on the quality of their product but also on their name. A few companies are ...

Some languages take far more practice to learn, let alone master. These are 7 currently spoken languages that are some of the most difficult to learn.

Brits visiting Spain have been urged to memorise a few things to avoid making some mortifying mistakes. James Smith, a Spanish language expert atLearn Spanish with James, has revealed some common ...

Abstract: Oral English practice constitutes a crucial component of English language acquisition for non-native speakers; however, traditional classroom teaching methods are increasingly insufficient ...

Abstract: In computer-assisted pronunciation training (CAPT), the scarcity of large-scale non-native corpora and human expert annotations are two fundamental challenges to non-native acoustic modeling ...

The Chewing (酷音) is an intelligent phonetic input method (Zhuyin/Bopomofo) and is one of the most popular choices for Traditional Chinese users. Chewing was inspired by other proprietary intelligent ...

TANZIL: A translated Quran to 42 languages, including African languages such as Amharic, Hausa, Somali, and Swahili. MENYO-20k: A Yorùbá-English multi-domain parallel text dataset. FFR: A Fon-French ...

Elizabeth II's traditional pronunciation has been influenced by modern trends. The pronunciation of all languages changes subtly over time 1, mainly owing to the younger members of the community 2.

The Caribbean has elbowed its way into the Oxford English Dictionary with 12 new words commonly used in the region ...