Sheri Brooks, an English as a Second Language teacher who specializes in accent reduction, works with Andrea Tontodonati, left, of the Philippines. The Lancaster General Hospital employee wanted to ...

Theresa Cinotti, a clinical assistant professor at UB’s Speech-Language and Hearing Clinic, finds accented English beautiful. An accent, she says, is something distinct and individual, a clue to a ...

Camden County College’s free advisement and instruction coursesare helping those whose first language isn’t English – including area residents and students from all over the world – conquer their ...

MIAMI, Fla. - Virginia Lopez, a Cuban-born economist, wants to speak better English. But when people hear her heavy accent, they switch to Spanish instead. Mariela Salomon, a legal secretary from ...

Inda Shirley is, by nature, a soft-spoken woman -- except when she talks about the difficulty that non-native speakers have in learning English. "We Americans don't understand how difficult it is to ...

NINA LIN came to San Francisco from China in 1991 at age 10. The first thing she did was learn Cantonese. “We speak Mandarin at home,” she explained. “I needed Cantonese at the Chinese Education ...