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Let’s start with a word that stumps even the best grammar nerds: quinoa. Those new to the pseudocereal tend to pronounce it as “QUEEN-o-ah.” But this tricky word is actually pronounced “KEEN-wah.” ...

Learners of foreign languages can hear the errors in pronunciation that fellow learners tend to make, but continue to fall foul of them themselves despite years of practice. A new study of ...

A Northern Arizona University researcher is in the process of developing a feedback tool to help second-language learners with their pronunciation. Okim Kang, a professor of applied linguistics at the ...