As an actor, working privately with a professional dialect coach can be the most rapid, reliable, trouble-free method for mastering an accent, and there’s no disputing that the addition of a key ...

Much like many industry professionals, Pamela Vanderway first wanted to be an actor, but over the course of her training, a new passion surfaced. “I loved the process of acting, I love what actors do, ...

Food, music, intergenerational activities and role-playing make dialect learning fun. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

A visit to Avery Island, home of Tabasco, offering a crash course in Cajun dialect while exploring Louisiana’s culture and ...

Tsakonika, the language of ancient Sparta, still survives today, despite the ravages of time and the many reversals of ...

To work on an accent with another person, a degree of trust is required. They have to make themselves very vulnerable to you. Many actors coming to that process are filled with fear. Now, I have ...

A British Library project preserves words used in different parts of the country. How many of them can you recognise? Have you ever been called mardy, been mithered, complained of someone being nesh, ...

Geordie is one of the oldest and best loved of Britain's dialects. But modern times mean that some Geordie words are dying out and North Easterners are changing how they speak. Inside Out gets ...

Sometimes, accents speak louder than words. Just ask the Georgetown University researchers who have been studying the way people here in Washington speak. When they hosted a couple of forums this ...