Imagine that you invite a friend, a non-native speaker of your own language, round for dinner. While cooking, you get distracted and the food ends up burnt to a crisp. Once the smoke detector stops ...

Foreign Accent Syndrome (FAS) is a rare and fascinating speech disorder in which individuals suddenly begin speaking with an accent that sounds foreign to their native dialect. First reported in 1907, ...

A mom woke up speaking like a member of ABBA. Georgina Gailey, 60, noticed her Swedish twang while chatting to her sister on FaceTime. Hospital medics suspected a stroke, but two weeks later she was ...

It isn’t that Spanish people can’t understand me; I can hold fairly complex conversations, even though I’m not fluent. But I have far more of a foreign accent than I realized. The minute I open my ...

Speaking with a foreign accent mitigates the impact of making grammatical errors, depending on the personality type of the listener, a new study has found. Speaking with a foreign accent mitigates the ...

Contrary to general belief, most bilinguals have an accent in one of their languages. In a first post, I discussed this longstanding myth and examined such aspects as the no accent age limit (it is ...

As anyone who has looked for a job can tell you, finding one isn’t the easiest process. This experience can be even more challenging if you’re new to a country and speak with what is perceived to be a ...