Sitting across from his teacher, Edgar Martinez repeated the word he couldn’t quite pronounce: “situation.” “Sit-oo-a-shun,” he said. “What happens with the tu?” asked the teacher, Lisa Mojsin, hired ...

The foreign accents that charm many Americans can also be a major barrier to getting hired after graduation. In order for international students with heavy accents to improve their employment chances ...

Carolina Freedman can read and write English perfectly but says she's been embarrassed when speaking it. She says she's had people tell her they don't speak Spanish when she's speaking English. "I was ...

Sheri Brooks, an English as a Second Language teacher who specializes in accent reduction, works with Andrea Tontodonati, left, of the Philippines. The Lancaster General Hospital employee wanted to ...

The rain in Spain won’t be falling mainly on the plain after all, at least not at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The Tennessee-based research facility canceled what it had billed as a “Southern accent ...

(WBIR) After a backlash from employees, Oak Ridge National Laboratory decided to drop a class that teaches how to minimize a southern accent. ORNL spokesperson David Keim said employees had requested ...

Assouma Nyirabahizi left her home and job in Rwanda two years ago, coming to America on a green card in hopes of a brighter future. Fluent in English, with a master’s degree in computer science, she ...

Managers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee canceled plans for a "Southern Accent Reduction" class because — shocker — staff members did not all take kindly to the "training opportunity." ...

OAK RIDGE, Tenn. — Ever consider getting rid of your southern accent? A Tennessee business’ Human Resource department was going to offer an optional class aimed at reducing and eliminating employees’ ...