I once dismissed the idea of learning Dutch. Now it's the primary language I use when speaking to my son.

For many diasporic Latines, an inevitable argument arises around identity and language. If you don’t speak the primary language of your home country, whether that’s Spanish, French or Portuguese, the ...

Can an adult learn to speak a second language with the accent of a native? Not likely, but new research suggests that we would make better progress, and be understood more easily by our conversational ...

Dr John P. Hopkins from St Martin’s University in Washington is to speak at this year’s Féile an Phobail ...

A new study of people who speak many languages has found that there is something special about how the brain processes their native language. In the brains of these polyglots—people who speak five or ...

A Pasadena ISD bilingual education initiative is producing early gains in reading and math, researchers found.

These days it's necessary to have at least a basic level of English proficiency in most research contexts. But at the same time, our collective emphasis on English places a significant burden on ...

Growing up in the bilingual city of Kyiv in the 1990s, I studied the Ukrainian language like a museum object—intensely, but at a distance, never quite feeling all of its textures or bringing it home.

Language With the Most Native Speakers Mandarin Chinese is the most widely spoken language in the world. Mandarin is the native language of hundreds of millions of people , mostly in China and other ...

Your native language could impact your musical ability. A global study that compared the melodic and rhythmic abilities of almost half a million people speaking 54 different languages found that tonal ...