Imagine that you invite a friend, a non-native speaker of your own language, round for dinner. While cooking, you get distracted and the food ends up burnt to a crisp. Once the smoke detector stops ...

“Foreign Accent Syndrome” (FAS) is a rare disorder in which patients start to speak with a foreign or regional tone. This striking condition is often associated with brain damage, such as stroke.

Foreign Accent Syndrome (FAS), particularly its psychogenic form, is a rare speech disorder where individuals develop accents without brain damage, linked to psychological factors. This condition, ...

BIRMINGHAM, United Kingdom — If you’ve ever felt self-conscious about mixing up “the” and “a” while speaking English as a second language, here’s some good news: native English speakers are likely to ...

Speaking with a foreign accent mitigates the impact of making grammatical errors, depending on the personality type of the listener, a new study has found. New research from the University of ...

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Speaking with a foreign accent mitigates the impact of making grammatical errors, depending on the personality type of the listener, a new study has found. Speaking with a foreign accent mitigates the ...