An exploration of the ways our tongues—and our pride—twist around foreign words, and what that says about how we want to be seen. It wasn’t so much that my friend, a Brit who has lived in Los Angeles ...

This is the fifth of eight voiceless consonant programmes in our series of videos that explore the sounds of English. This is the fifth of seven short vowel programmes in our series of videos that ...

Hi. I'm Tim and this is my pronunciation workshop. Here I'm going to show you how English is really spoken. Come on, let's go inside. Wow. Isn't the world an amazing place? Look how many countries ...

To produce intelligible speech, the moving column of air from the lungs must be precisely controlled at the laryngeal valve, at the palatopharyngeal port, and at various constriction points created ...

The English language is full of words that seem overstuffed with unnecessary letters, feel like they should be spelled a different way, or just don't make sense. Here are some of our favorites, ...

Egyptian hieroglyphs are among the oldest writing systems in the world, dating back some 5,200 years. Known in ancient Egyptian as the “language of the gods” and said to have been created by the god ...