“I see you have adjusted well and picked up their language.” I let out a slight chuckle, struggling to find words to fill the awkward silence that engulfed the Zoom call. I had not realized that I was ...

Ever since I moved to the U.S., many people have told me that I have an accent. A girl in my fifth-grade math class said “You sound weird.” My AP English teacher asked me “You are not from here, right ...

For language geeks like me, accent reduction is a term used to describe losing a foreign or regional accent to adopt a more popular one (e.g., American). It’s an important part of a person’s identity, ...