The following article talks about how difficult it can be to change corporate culture when it contrasts significantly with the local culture. For example, I know from my teaching, how difficult it can be for people who have been brought up to treat people in authority...
The following article talks about why people take accent training and the benefits they receive from accent modification training. Accent training: the finishing touch By Stephanie McFeeters / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Lai Xu had studied English since she was a teenager...
In this TED Talk video entitled The World’s English Mania, Jay Walker explains why two billion people around the world are trying to learn English. He shares photos and spine-tingling audio of Chinese students rehearsing English — “the world’s second...
Your language could be influencing your financial health. In this video, Keith Chen gives a very interesting Ted Talk on how language affects how you view the relationship between the past, present and future. For many English speakers, as well as those from many...
