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SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ELSA, a Silicon Valley-based company that uses speech recognition technology and artificial intelligence to help language learners improve their English pronunciation, ...

No matter what language you learn, the goal is always to communicate in that language—through listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Of these, pronunciation is often the biggest challenge. What ...

Each semester, the Center for English Language Studies (CELS) offers a free pronunciation workshop open to the whole New School community — students, visiting scholars, staff, and faculty — who wish ...

Skwerl, a short film by Brian Fairbairn and Karl Eccleston, attempts to show the English language through the ears of non-English speakers. Throughout the film you can make out certain words you know, ...

Post written by François Grosjean. In an earlier post, I discussed the longstanding myth that real bilinguals have no accent in their different languages. I showed that having an accent in one or more ...

Learning a second language during childhood can prove to be a fun and fruitful experience for children. Though it has been ...

Here's how you can learn the Irish language for free online no matter where in the world you are. Learning Irish can be an expensive business if you’re located outside of Ireland. (And just to be ...

The English language is challenging due to complicated grammar, inconsistent sentence structure and colloquial idioms that it doesn't share with related languages. However, English is a target ...