Speak, a language learning app, takes a different approach to language learning, and after years on Duolingo, I'm loving ...

Too many Americans today can’t speak a second language, or even speak and write English sufficiently, writes Lynne Agress.

Psycholinguistics is a field at the intersection of psychology and linguistics, and one of its recent discoveries is that the languages we speak influence our eye movements. For example, English ...

I’m probably the youngest kid ever to be kicked out of first grade. Born in Seattle to immigrant parents, I was kicked out one school day in 1952 for not being able to speak English. My parents wanted ...

Many of us have had the experience, when sitting in a foreign language class or visiting another country, of fumbling for the words to convey our thoughts. In a brilliant essay from his book Me Talk ...

The English language has at least half a million words, depending on what dictionary you're looking at. English consists of letters running from the left side of the page to the right, while other ...

As globalization and communication overwhelms local cultures, what will become of all our languages? In colonial times, the dominant powers often banned the speaking of native tongues. It’s a power ...

If you’re enrolling your child in California state-subsidized preschool this fall, you’ll be asked new questions about what languages they speak and understand. It’s part of a new effort to identify ...