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 ...

Why do we see German and Roman characters speaking like they’re from London? The blame lies partly with film directors – and more broadly with British imperialism.

Drumroll, please… It’s the Hong Kong accent, crowned the sexiest Asian English accent ... to say the least. Language learning app Preply decided to play Cupid and find out which accents make us swoon.

But while all those accents — typically known as Received Pronunciation” (RP), or the Queen’s English — are thought of globally as the “standard” British accent (and indeed ...

Language learning app Preply has ... and the results speak for themselves. The British accent has been voted as the sexiest foreign accent when speaking English, with just under 50 percent of ...

This course gives an introduction to the regional and social accents of English spoken in the British Isles. It provides an overview of the ways in which pronunciation varies in England, Wales, ...

From the approachable Geordie twang to the instantly recognisable Edinburgh lilt, the UK is home to some of the most distinctive accents in ... Standard Southern British English (SSBE).