Vietnamese and Khmer are the two well-known languages in the Mon-Khmer language group which is most of the Austro-Asiatic language family, the only national languages in the family. Languages in this family are mostly in Southeast Asia but are also found in India and Bangladesh. The map of the haplogroup O2b-M9 may explain why and […]
Curious how speakers in other countries including non-native speakers pronounce English? Check out the Speech Accent Archive.
Sure, it’s natural to make fun of someone’s accent. But what makes someone’s English sound non-native? From a linguists point of view, this site breaks down various speakers accents and makes generalizations about their phonology, how they mispronounce things.
For example, […]