When asked what it takes to “truly” belong in a country, many people globally say speaking the local language is key.

And why is language “prejudice” harmful? If we speak a very ... sometimes people guess wrongly about us from our speech. The misperception of Chicano-English speakers (such as guessing ...

In a country as vast as the United States ... more than 30,000 people from all 50 states in the early 2000s to compile some of the starkest regional divisions in American English, from vocabulary ...

There are also cultural benefits: they’ll feel closer to people ... exposed to English, so it seems to take over in their brain and they use more English sentence structure when speaking in ...

Here is a map of the United States divided up into its major dialect regions. Think about where in the country you feel people speak the most correct form of American English. Where do they speak ...