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 ...

I wouldn't exactly say the French has been going well. A few decades after I left behind my high school language requirement (and the middling grades that accompanied it), I decided recently it was ...

The inability of too many Americans to learn or speak anything but English constitutes a foreign language “emergency” that could end up harming the economy and impairing U.S. foreign policy, according ...

It’s well established that children have an easier time learning second languages. In recent years, scientists have studied ...

Florence Myles received funding from the ESRC (Economic and Social Research Funding Council) for the study 'Learning French from ages 5, 7 and 11: an investigation into starting ages, rates and routes ...

When the protagonist in the British cult sci-fi novel "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" sticks a creature called a Babel fish in his ear, it translates all alien speech for him. Can artificial ...

There is little evidence that many students achieve much fluency in high school." Jay Mathews Washington Post As a freshman in high school I took French I and after earning a 75, I trudged on to ...

Employers in the United States are increasingly reliant on multilingual employees to advance their goals, but many have lost business opportunities because they don’t have staff who can communicate in ...

Learning a second language may help improve brain function regardless of when you start, according to a new study. Researchers found that young adults proficient in two languages performed better on ...

When twins Ryan and Michael D’Introno entered kindergarten two years ago, they often came home from school singing songs in Spanish, part of a language immersion program their school in Bedford Hills, ...

March 18, 2014 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google Besides the personal satisfaction of learning a new language, becoming fluent in a language could boost your ...

The Ramakrishna Mission will establish Tripura's first Foreign Language Training Centre in Agartala. CM Manik Saha announced the initiative, which aims to enhance global employability and skill ...