This body of work emphasizes the complex interplay between accent, perceived competence, and social attitudes, revealing how language attitudes can shape perceptions of individuals based on their ...

The University of Cambridge have published the results of their study on accents and possible bias within the criminal ...

For Estonian speakers, the Finnish accent is the easiest to recognize. In contrast, accents such as Lithuanian and Danish ...

Accents refer to the way language is pronounced and form a wider part of our everyday dialects. The World Economic Forum estimates there are over 1.5 billion English speakers in the world ...

Why do we see German and Roman characters speaking like they’re from London? The blame lies partly with film directors – and more broadly with British imperialism.

French, long revered as the epitome of romance and sophistication, has been unseated as the world's sexiest accent, as per a recent survey by language learning platform Babbel. In a surprising ...

Language learning app Preply has conducted a survey on the most attractive accents to Hongkongers, and the results speak for themselves. The British accent has been voted as the sexiest foreign ...