Geneva Smitherman ended up in speech therapy in her freshman year at Wayne State University in the 1950s, when she failed a test to screen incoming teaching students for possible speech problems. The ...

About 34% of New Jersey residents over the age of 5, or 3,082,476, speak a language other than English. This means that 1 in ...

For as long as she can remember, Sonja Lanehart has been fascinated by how people speak. In particular, she was interested in the differences she noticed between how white people spoke, when compared ...

English and Spanish are the most common languages spoken in the U.S. but where do the rest rank? Newsweek has mapped tongues from other motherlands, and German comes third. In total, 13 states speak ...

President Donald Trump’s edict this past week declaring English as our official language is at odds with America's long traditions of meeting immigrants halfway in their heritage languages. It ...

President Donald Trump recently signed an executive order naming English the official language of the United States. The order revokes a Clinton-era order that required federal agencies to provide ...

Want to sound more natural when speaking English? In this lesson, you’ll learn how native speakers pronounce American English ...

President Donald Trump issued an executive order declaring English as the nation's official language, but Native leaders dispute its reach. For many years, the federal government tried to erase Native ...