TikTok user Diego Rivas has received millions of views for his videos that capture what different languages sound like to people who do not speak the language. “Gibberish”: Rivas, who uses the handle ...

One of the most daunting tasks when traveling abroad is attempting to understand the language. To most people, a different language can sound like complete gibberish as speech patterns, inflection and ...

In the early hours of the morning, a TikTok video titled “Does Japanese with a California valley girl accent = Simlish?” popped up on my For You page. The algorithm knows me too well. In the video, ...

Standup comedian Jacques Silvère Bah, known as Le Magnific, played with French and African words and accents at a humor festival in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, in February. Arlette Bashizi for The New York ...