For actor Sam Worthington, starring in James Cameron’s Avatar was a life-changing experience. The film not only boosted his profile, but he had the chance to work with a prolific director with a ...

Regional accents help All 88 children who participated in the study were German speakers, some of them bilingual or multilingual. The researchers also asked how often per week each child hears ...

Kate Winslet has had to learn many accents during her career, but the one she had to master for her latest role may have stood out as being one of the hardest. "It's interesting because I realize that ...

BRIDGEPORT -- Griselle Lopez and Alberto Santiago converse briefly in Spanish, their native tongue, before pulling their chairs together to rehearse a brief monologue in Mandarin Chinese. "OK, guys," ...

In our review of the first episode of Mare Of Easttown, Joshua Alston notes out that the show’s star, Kate Winslet, “is truly killing her take on the elusive Delco accent”—a southeastern Pennsylvanian ...

Sam Keeley is breaking down what it was like to perfect his Philadelphia accent for Task — and why the process of getting it down was a "nightmare." The Irish actor, 34, revealed to PEOPLE at the New ...

Tim Matheson’s recent joke comparing First Ladies maybe funny, but to imply that Melania Trump doesn’t speak English cuts deep those of us that struggled to learn English as legal immigrants. Learning ...

I’m sharing a fun accent challenge, showing how we say common words in Eastern Kentucky. I’ll go through everyday items and ...

Mac M. Mertens ’26, a Crimson Editorial editor, lives in Weld Hall. I always thought that I sounded pretty neutral, geographically-undefined. It was something I was proud of. Of course, I shouted ...

University of Waterloo provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation CA. University of Waterloo provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA-FR. When you consider how children ...

"The hardest part of all of it was doing it and doing it well enough that it just sort of disappears and you don't then hear me doing it," Kate Winslet said Kate Winslet has had to learn many accents ...