If you’ve watched Netflix’s “Emily in Paris” (or really any show that’s set in France), you’ve probably wondered how the actors have mastered their French accents—especially the ones who are faking it ...

Unlike private or group classes which are effective but expensive, language learning apps are affordable and can be used at my own leisure. I’ve tried them here and there in the past, but this time ...

Doing exercises in a book was très terrible. A friend suggested something more radical. By Rachel Kushner There’s a scene I love in the movie “Husbands,” when John Cassavetes, performing in his own ...

It would behoove any cinephile to learn Alicia Vikander’s name, and learn it quickly. The Swedish actor first hit the states in Joe Wright’s 2012 “Anna Karenina” and since then she’s been working ...

Shiri Lev-Ari is a lecturer in Psychology, Royal Holloway University of London. This story originally featured on The Conversation. If someone asked you to read this text aloud in a French accent or ...