Food, music, intergenerational activities and role-playing make dialect learning fun. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read ...

If you speak English with a California accent but you want to learn to speak Sindarin like a native — that is, like a Middle Earth elf — where do you start? Begin with vowel sounds, said Leith ...

TAIPEI (Mainichi) -- There may be no foreign place where people encounter Japanese on street corners as often as in Taiwan.

Geordie is one of the oldest and best loved of Britain's dialects. But modern times mean that some Geordie words are dying out and North Easterners are changing how they speak. Inside Out gets ...

As an actor, working privately with a professional dialect coach can be the most rapid, reliable, trouble-free method for mastering an accent, and there’s no disputing that the addition of a key ...

A British Library project preserves words used in different parts of the country. How many of them can you recognise? Have you ever been called mardy, been mithered, complained of someone being nesh, ...

Much like many industry professionals, Pamela Vanderway first wanted to be an actor, but over the course of her training, a new passion surfaced. “I loved the process of acting, I love what actors do, ...

CHINA, Kagoshima Prefecture--The dominance of standard Japanese in colloquial speech across the archipelago has obvious advantages. But it comes at the risk of killing off rare dialects spoken on ...

How a Chinese film shot in dialect is finding a global audience - "Dear You," a film shot in a southern Chinese dialect, has ...

Geordie is one of the oldest and best loved of Britain's dialects. But modern times mean that some Geordie words are dying out and North Easterners are changing how they speak. Inside Out gets ...