Most of us learnt that ‘a’ goes before consonants and ‘an’ before vowels – and most of us were only half-right. This Learning ...

Exploring theories of language origin, phonetic foundations, and effective learning strategies for fluency Mohd Ishaq Shah How did language come into being? Linguists have cited various theories ...

This is the classic English tongue-twister everyone tries at least once. The string of “sh” and “s” sounds forces your tongue ...

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According to the team, changing the human-based perception of timing was crucial to these findings. In humans, vowels are ...

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Fluent English speakers often add sounds between words to link them together. When one word ends with a vowel sound, and the following word begins with a vowel sound, you might hear a subtle /j/ or /w ...