Founded by former Thiel fellows, AI language tutoring app Speak started its journey in Seoul, South Korea. But as it enters ...

Adults learning another language often tend to continue using the intonation of their native language. This causes them to ...

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

Language learning isn’t kid stuff anymore. In fact, it never was, a provocative new study concludes. A crucial period for learning the rules and structure of a language lasts up to around age 17 or 18 ...

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“My English small, but my thinking big,” she said as she held her thumb and forefinger close together, almost touching. The class erupted in laughter, not unkindly, and she laughed too.

The idea that we have brains hardwired with a mental template for learning grammar—famously espoused by Noam Chomsky of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology—has dominated linguistics for almost ...

For most native English-speakers, learning the Mandarin Chinese language from scratch is no easy task. Learning it in a class that essentially compresses a one-semester college course into a single ...