Estrada is not alone. Latinos in media have to disguise their accents. In both English and Spanish media markets, neutral accents are preferred. The result is a “standardized” way of speaking.

Spanish has strict accentuation rules, but some words—especially surnames—can seem to break them. One common question is why «Gimenez» does not carry an accent, despite appearing to fit the ...

An accent that makes me hesitate before using Spanish to order in a Cuban cafeteria in Miami or speaking to another Latinx, afraid to reveal myself as a fraud, an American who speaks Spanish and ...

Benicio del Toro is a household name in the Latine community. However, his Puerto Rican accent in Spanish hits differently.

Hilaria Baldwin is ready to talk about the accent drama. In her new memoir, Manual Not Included, Baldwin gets frank about several public controversies, including the one that haunts her most: the ...

His accent is pretty strong, with viewers often commenting on it. So when actor Todd spoke in the video with an entirely different accent, viewers were "mind blown".

In the end, prejudice against accents betrays bad manners and small minds, and says more about the listener than about the put-upon speaker. But often it is itself a sign of poor education.

With more than 41 million speakers, the Spanish spoken in the US varies from coast to coast. Comedian Joanna Hausmann, a Venezuelan-American, describes some of these accents and demonstrates how ...

The Argentine leader, under pressure over the case of a dead Argentine prosecutor, courted new controversy on a state visit to China on Wednesday when she mocked Chinese pronunciation.