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The English language has very interesting sound patterns and pronunciation rules that sets it apart from other languages. These sounds tend to be difficult, if not tiresome for non-native speakers to ...
New research has found that mnemonic images and explicit sound contrasting help Japanese children learn more effectively the sounds of the English alphabet.
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A TikToker shared a famous song that mimics what English sounds like to non-English speakers, and English-speaking TikTok users are stunned. Decode and demystify Gen Z's latest online slang terms ...
Perhaps the most classic example in English of treating two different sounds as the same sound without even noticing it is a thing linguists call aspiration.
This article reports on the results of a research study that investigated Cantonese English as a second language (ESL) learners' perception of English speech sounds, their perceived relations between ...
TikTok user @languagesimp has shared that native English speakers sound like Sim - from the popular Sims video game franchise - to non-native speakers.