Language learning is now more accessible than ever, thanks to technology. While Duolingo’s gamified approach makes learning fun, it can feel repetitive and lacks depth for real conversations. If you ...

A photo composite showing a person on a laptop with a bubble coming out of it and the German flag colors on it, and another person on a mobile device with a buble and the colors and patters of the ...

Signs written in Spanish are posted in a second-grade bilingual class at Farmers Branch Elementary School, which serves a predominantly Latino, low-income population in Farmers Branch. Despite our ...

Yuko Goto Butler, director of the Graduate School of Education's Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) Program, has long fielded requests from her students for a wide-ranging book of ...

For most native English-speakers, learning the Mandarin Chinese language from scratch is no easy task. Learning it in a class that essentially compresses a one-semester college course into a single ...

Language learning is deeply personal—but some languages are, objectively, more accessible to native English speakers than others. Factors like shared roots, familiar grammar rules, a common writing ...

At the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, companies harbored hopes of returning to normal within a couple of weeks or months. Nearly eight months into the pandemic, it appears that a return to near ...

You may have heard that learning another language is one method for preventing or at least postponing the onset of dementia. Dementia refers to the loss of cognitive abilities, and one of its most ...

Artificial intelligence now translates both spoken and written language with ease and at lightning speed. Yet, it still lacks 'culture' and the human touch needed to free employees from mastering ...

Design by Erin Shi. Buy this photo. I’m standing at a restaurant in southern France, near Montpellier. Aided only by my scarce French 103 knowledge, I’m staying silent and attempting to understand ...

Suppose you decided to start learning a new language—let’s say Italian. In the beginning stages of your language-learning journey, the Italian speech you’ll hear will likely sound like a stream of ...