BENGALURU: When Tanuja watched her son, a kindergartner, struggling to read English she decided to enrol him for phonetics classes. “They would teach him the sound of each letter in the English ...

Tonal languages are different from non-tonal languages because tonal languages are dependent on the emphasis and pronunciation, because how a word is said will affect its meaning. It is quite ...

Rhode Island School of Design student Yangyang Ding has created a series of metal instruments to help Mandarin speakers pronounce difficult English sounds. Yangyang Ding's pronunciation tools help ...

In a world where names and places often challenge our linguistic skills, the recent news cycle has brought forth two significant entries into the list of the most difficult words to pronounce in 2025: ...

The Hong Kong Education City and Oxford University Press (OUP) this week launched a campaign to help improve spoken English by learning the International Phonetic Alphabetics (IPA) in a new approach ...

In today’s edition of ‘things that will make your head hurt’: this video from TikTok user @languagesimp. The TikTok creator, who boasts a whopping 1.1 million followers and claims to speak every ...

This year’s West African Senior School Certificate Examination has been a peculiar one. Unlike the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination that ‘escaped’ the COVID-19 saga, WAEC got caught in the ...