BENGALURU: When Tanuja watched her son, a kindergartner, struggling to read English she decided to enrol him for phonetics classes. “They would teach him the sound of each letter in the English ...

What is a digraph? Well, there are plenty of them in English and it’s where two ‘written letters’ represent one phonetic sound. For example, in the word ‘phonetic’. the first two letters <ph> are ...

Tonal languages are different from non-tonal languages because tonal languages are dependent on the emphasis and pronunciation, because how a word is said will affect its meaning. It is quite ...

Rhode Island School of Design student Yangyang Ding has created a series of metal instruments to help Mandarin speakers pronounce difficult English sounds. Yangyang Ding's pronunciation tools help ...

This year’s West African Senior School Certificate Examination has been a peculiar one. Unlike the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination that ‘escaped’ the COVID-19 saga, WAEC got caught in the ...

In today’s edition of ‘things that will make your head hurt’: this video from TikTok user @languagesimp. The TikTok creator, who boasts a whopping 1.1 million followers and claims to speak every ...