There's an old joke among teachers and students of foreign languages that goes something like this: What do you call somebody who speaks three languages? Tri-lingual. What do you call somebody who ...

Most of us assume that learning another language is very difficult. You need special skills to remember both vocabulary and grammar rules and, at the same time, must be able to converse fluently with ...

Every day, Massachusetts seventh-grader Kaylyn Wilson takes a break from doing homework online and opens an app on her phone for a half-hour foreign language lesson. “The boy has three green bikes and ...

Every time you sign in online, Lingua.ly views it as an opportunity to help you perfect your French or hone your Hebrew. The startup has raised $500,000 to make learning a foreign language part of ...

MacArthur High School seniors Alyssa Amatulli (front row left) and Hannah Kilmetis (front row right) taught Lee Road fifth-graders how to do the Tarantella. (Photo by Levittown Public Schools) ...

A first-of-its-kind national survey sought to examine the state of foreign language education in primary and secondary schools, but found a striking “lack of knowledge about foreign language teaching ...

Experts say English slang and regional dialect should not be banned from classrooms but when you're getting to grips with a second language how helpful is it to learn non-standard lingo? Experts say ...

Sounds kind of like a tropical fungus, but as I discovered this week during the Design/Type/Color seminar here at Poynter, the language of the newsroom can come in some pretty funny dialects. Here are ...

In an increasingly diverse Japan, more and more young people come from non-Japanese backgrounds. Ensuring that they get the training they need to succeed in the Japanese language, at higher levels of ...

A new study is among the first to investigate how babies can learn a second language outside of the home. The researchers sought to answer a fundamental question: Can babies be taught a second ...