This video by English Teacher Claire serves as a guide to mastering American English pronunciation, specifically focusing on ...

Welcome back to "Teaching in Room 9," our region's largest classroom. My name is Julia, I'm one of the second grade teachers at the Soulard School, in here for "Teaching in Room 9," this time around, ...

Only Slate Plus members can gift Slate stories. Become a member to share 10 free articles a month. How many vowels does English have? Five, right? A, E, I, O, U. Oh, and sometimes Y. So, six? Actually ...

The English language has very interesting sound patterns and pronunciation rules that sets it apart from other languages. These sounds tend to be difficult, if not tiresome for non-native speakers to ...

Sound doesn’t fossilize. Language doesn’t either. Even when writing systems have developed, they’ve represented full-fledged and functional languages. Rather than preserving the first baby steps ...