Michael Erard is the author of "Babel No More: The Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Language Learners." Updated January 29, 2012, 7:00 PM Whether or not you think learning a language other ...

English serves as a convenient, common language for science. However, this practice poses insurmountable barriers to those whose first language is not English — the majority of people around the world ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I help leaders communicate and collaborate with a global workforce. This article is more than 4 years old. Native English speakers ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Pronunciation accuracy may not be the most important thing for making non-native English speakers easier to understand, but rather it is their fluency, including fewer pauses, ...

Macquarie University researchers have found social perceptions, not speech patterns, may explain why vocal fry is more often ...

We already knew that generative AI replicates human biases, but it turns out the tools meant to identify it do, as well. reading time 3 minutes Programs meant to distinguish chatbot text from human ...

Researchers at MIT have created a database of annotated sentences written by non-native English speakers, the university announced in a press release Friday, in an effort to improve the ways in which ...

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