Not speaking English is a figurative wall that obstructs millions of immigrants in California from taking full advantage of the opportunities in their new home. Although there are plenty of places ...

If you’ve watched all of Netflix, played every board game in your possession, and baked more bread than you can possibly consume, consider spending some of your newfound free time learning (or ...

Learning a new language isn’t easy. It took me four years of high school French to be semi-comfortable ordering a croissant in a Parisian cafe. But, keeping a notebook while you’re learning a foreign ...

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 ...

Polyglots and language students are revealing the toughest languages to master, highlighting nightmare grammar rules and unfamiliar alphabets.

Unlike the carefully scripted dialogue found in most books and movies, the language of everyday interaction tends to be messy and incomplete, full of false starts, interruptions, and people talking ...

Do humans learn grammar based on what they hear? Or is it already in our brain somewhere? Shutterstock How do we humans end up using language in a way that conforms to grammatical rules? Recent ...

Your host in Osaka, Japan, slips on a pair of headphones and suddenly hears your words transformed into flawless Kansai ...

A Spanish speaker learning English may say, “I have 20 years,” instead of “I am 20 years old.” This is a common mistake that can even sound charming. But a new study suggests such slips may not be ...