Learning a new language requires a lot of time, but not necessarily a lot of money. Whether you're traveling to a foreign ...

My weekly language classes have taught me humility more than anything else. Ayaka Ono, my current Japanese teacher, estimates ...

Ph.D. candidate Yuchen Lian (LIACS) wants to understand why human languages look the way they do—and find inspiration to ...

If language is what makes us human, what does it mean now that large language models have gained “metalinguistic” abilities?

The Choctaw Nation is partnering with Rosetta Stone to develop a comprehensive language learning course as tribal leaders ...

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

Learning a new language can be tricky, but how many words do you need to know before you can actually get by in a foreign tongue? That was the question posed to BBC Radio 4's More or Less programme by ...

National Institutes of Health suggests ​that researchers are less likely now than previously to consider study participants' ...

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 ...

New research suggests wild chimpanzees have developed a far more nuanced communication system than previously realized, using several mechanisms that combine their vocalizations to create new meaning.

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 ...