From Nosferatu to Schindler’s List. Gemma King, senior lecturer in French Studies and an ARC DECRA Fellow in Screen Studies ...
By Gemma KingIn two of the biggest films released this summer, Gladiator II and Nosferatu, most actors seem to be speaking like they’re in a Shakespeare play – even though their characters are based ...
Drumroll, please… It’s the Hong Kong accent, crowned the sexiest Asian English accent! We all know that not all accents are created ... Double check. Not to be outdone, the French accent came in third ...
Whether home pride came into play when the votes were cast, we don’t know. What we do know is that Hong Kong accent is often used as caricature in Western pop culture when Asians speak English. In ...
Conspiracy theory-peddling Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) drew criticism this weekend for a social media post about the ...
Republican representative posted White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt's response to a question about diversity, ...
The standard English accent they suggest is the least likely to behave in criminal ways - except when it came to sexual ...
For instance, studies comparing the attitudes of American English speakers toward different accents found that speakers with German and French accents were rated more positively than those with Arabic ...
According to France’s Interior Minister, foreigners resident in France who are struggling to get to grips with the language ‘aren’t trying’. As many of The Local's readers can attest, learning French ...