The explosive success of Bad Bunny has brought Puerto Rican Spanish, a Caribbean dialect known for its musical rhythm, to the ...

3:42 p.m. Feb. 6, 2023: A previous version of this story said that Samara Bay coached Gal Gadot for both Wonder Woman roles. Bay only coached Gadot in “Wonder Woman 1984.” If you speak English with a ...

Kids born between 2010 and 2024 have adapted a dialect all their own. When Natalie Boe listens to her two young sons talk with each other and their friends, she said it can be like listening to a ...

If you're hanging out in South Florida, you might hear someone say that they are making a party instead of throwing a party or that they are getting down from the car instead of getting out of one.

Later, I emigrated to the U.S. to teach linguistics at Wayne State University and began researching and teaching what academics call African American Vernacular English, or the everyday speech of ...

SCRANTON — Jeet yet? No. D’joo? Longtime residents of Northeast Pennsylvania likely would readily understand hearing that coal-region-speak as: Did you eat yet? No. Did you? Likewise, they would know ...

Across Europe, North America, and beyond, many learners are heritage speakers or descendants of Arabic-speaking families. Their motivation is deeply personal: connecting with grandparents, ...