“Until now, there was a lack of studies on the influence of regional and foreign accents on children's learning of new words,” says Hanulíková. To fill this gap, the researchers had 88 Freiburg ...

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 ...

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 ...

Actor Theo James joins TODAY to dish about his role in "The Gentlemen," learning a New York accent for a role, "The White Lotus” and then reveals he initially started in music before going into acting ...

From the moment we are born (and even before that, in utero), we tune into the languages around us. This includes the accents they are spoken in. Studies have found that infants show a preference for ...

Learning a new language as an adult is no easy task, but new research highlighted in Time suggests that one way to speed up the process might be to stop trying to get the accent perfect. Instead, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Goats don't have their own language, but they do seem able to pick up accents from one another, scientists found in a study of calls made by young goats. The researchers say their results could have ...

"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 ...