How well do language models understand Meenzerisch, the dialect spoken in the German city of Mainz? A research team led by ...

Everyone has an accent, but how do the ones we have today relate to those of our ancient ancestors and those we had in ...

Explore translator Ross Benjamin's insights on adapting Daniel Kehlmann's International Booker-nominated novel, "The Director ...

We are surrounded by computer-generated voices these days, from navigation systems and voice assistants to automated ...

Learning German takes time and dedication, but it doesn't have to cost a lot of money. Image by Markus Winkler auf Pixabay Looking to learn German without spending a cent? From flashcard apps to ...

Mascha Schilinski‘s “Sound of Falling,” which follows the tough lives of four women across the generations on a farm, leads the race for the German Film Awards, also known as the Lolas. The film, ...

'22 Lengths,' 'Amrum,' 'Ach, diese Lücke, diese entsetzliche Lücke' and 'The Disappearance of Josef Mengele' are also among the nominees. By Georg Szalai Global Business Editor THR‘s review called ...

Sound designers Erik Aadahl and Ethan Van der Ryn tell IndieWire about reverse-engineering and performing a non-human language. One of the nice things about prose is the absolutely enormous narrative ...

German is often mocked as harsh, cold, or aggressive, but the real explanation goes deeper than the sounds themselves. Yes, the language has glottal stops, guttural consonants, and long compound words ...

How hard-boiled language lessons from Adrienne, the motorcycle-riding author of a series of 1970s language books, turned a homebody into an explorer. By Mary Bergman “The whole world comes to ...

Germany’s uneasy energy truce with Washington is starting to fray, and the pressure point is a single refinery that keeps Berlin moving. Managers at the PCK Schwedt refinery, majority-owned by ...