In the U.K., studies have repeatedly found evidence of accentism. Prejudice based on someone's way of speaking can affect people in the classroom, the office and beyond. Our research of dialects and ...

Modern Chinese's standard language, "Putonghua", may at first glance seem like a uniform and rigid system, but in reality, it is a fluid entity that is constantly being updated as it incorporates ...

David Victor Plymire, a 95-year-old U.S. citizen born in New York, speaks the local Chinese dialect he learned during 17 ...

BEIJING (Reuters Life!) - China is hoping to make big money from supporting a once marginalized and repressed regional language which is widely spoken in affluent Taiwan and many Chinese communities ...

In a busy Chinatown, a foreigner begins switching between four Chinese dialects. Each change triggers surprise and disbelief. Locals stop to listen and test the fluency. Conversations jump between ...

At the Hubei Provincial Museum in Wuhan, the capital city of Central China's Hubei Province, visitors can now point a smartphone at a bronze sword more than 2,000 years old and ask, in the local Wuhan ...

His parents, who are both Hainanese, divorced when he was around nine, and he grew up speaking English with his mother. “My dialect and culture were never handed to me. “I am choosing as an adult, for ...