A new study suggests that everyday multilingual habits—from chatting with neighbors to revisiting a childhood language—may ...

A new study reveals that the human brain processes spoken language in a sequence that closely mirrors the layered ...

Easily the best way to learn a language is by speaking it, and to that end Speak is adding new voice-first lesson content, helping you to practice new words and phrases. Speak is also taking a new ...

Working in the APEX Lab , led by cognitive psychologist Howard C. Nusbaum, Chinnappa is trying to decode what words and ...

Want to hold a conversation in English without breaking a sweat, order a coffee in Spanish without stammering, or impress on ...

Google Translate support for Android app shortcuts will make it easier to get right to your next Practice mode session.

Is language core to thought, or a separate process? For 15 years, the neuroscientist Ev Fedorenko has gathered evidence of a ...

Across the United States, a quiet linguistic shift is underway, reshaping how people speak in ways that are easy to miss in ...

In the Swiss Alps, a plan to tidy up Romansh—spoken by less than one per cent of the country—set off a decades-long quarrel ...

Roughly 34 million children around the world are affected by some sort of hearing loss, including deafness. Deafness is a type of hearing loss that results in having very little to no functional ...

No one prepared me for the heartbreak of losing my first language. It doesn’t feel like the sudden, sharp pain of losing someone you love, but rather a dull ache that builds slowly until it becomes a ...

Verbal communication is usually straightforward. You open your mouth and say what you want to say. Communication doesn’t only happen verbally. As you speak or listen, you also express feelings and ...