We can’t help it. Ever since a particularly well-fated study abroad dorm assignment, we’ve had a thing for a man speaking Portuguese-inflected English. While we could easily spend the rest of the ...

Challenge your ear! Can you hear the difference between native and non-native English accents? Test your skills, learn idiomatic phrases, and improve your English!

National Public Radio killed a story on a culturally significant Brazilian art piece because of concerns over the journalist’s foreign accent, as she moved to the U.S. from Brazil two decades ago. “I ...

SAO PAULO — Melanito Biyouha tries to remember the languages she’s heard today at her restaurant in Sao Paulo’s African corner. “English, Bassa, Wolof, Swahili, umm … Lingala,” she said. “And of ...