This course is designed for working professionals who want to polish and refine their spoken English skills. The course emphasizes producing increasingly accurate English stress, rhythm and intonation ...

Much to their dislike, U.S. citizens have on a number of occasions been stereotyped as "less intelligent" and "less cultured" than Western Europeans. The latter's jibes often take the same shape and ...

So tasty and so hard to pronounce. Languages are challenging for many reasons, from strange nickname origins to confusing text abbreviations. Pronunciation is yet another thing that makes languages ...

President Obama referred to the game of soccer as "football" in a press conference in Brussels on Thursday, another folly in a long line of Obama eschewing wholesome American words for those of ...

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puh-KAHN. PEE-can. pee-KAHN. PEE-kahn. These are just some of the ways people around the country pronounce the smooth, brown nut that is spelled "pecan" but verbalized very differently, depending on ...