Dialect coach Catherine Charlton helped actors on HBO's John Adams miniseries nail down Colonial American accents.

Fantasy books and films are a massive hit with both readers and spectators. Although the tales occur in a fictional realm, the characters always speak with British accents instead of American accents.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A traditional town crier, left, and a happy, applauding audience, right. Americans have this strange love of British accents—so ...

An important part of many actors' work is to take on an accent that isn't their own. The American accent is one of the hardest to master, since it has so many variations depending on which part of the ...

The first trailer for Pablo Larraín’s Spencer has just dropped, and fans can’t believe what they’re seeing. All everybody is talking about is Kristen Stewart and how it looks like her performance as ...

British working class and ethnic accents still face the same negative bias they did 50 years ago. mentatdgt/ Shutterstock Do you judge people’s abilities based on their accent? Do you think a person ...

A convincing British accent can be surprisingly difficult for American actors, considering the vast differences between British and American English. One reason may be that British actors more often ...