Neuroscientists have long listened to the brain’s electrical spikes, but those loud crackles are only the final output of a ...

Language learning is often a daunting prospect. Many of us wish we had learned a language to a higher level at school. But ...

The Political Nature of Perception Proposed by Spatial Installation Art in the AI Era — Adrian Villar Rojas, Focusing on the Exhibition "The Language of the Enemy" 1. Art Questioning the Conditions of ...

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

Language is so deeply embedded in almost every aspect of the way we interact with the world that it’s hard to imagine what it would be like not to have it. What if we didn’t have names for things?

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

You’ve probably heard that being multilingual is a great resume builder and a valuable asset to promote career growth. Being able to speak a language that’s in demand may even result in a promotion or ...

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 ...

OK is one of the most frequently used words in the English language, but does it have a Greek origin? There are numerous ...

Explore the Smithsonian Folklife Festival's "One World, Many Voices" program. Nearly half of the 7,000 languages spoken in the world are expected to vanish in the next 100 years. One of them is ...

The voice was soft and scratchy, as if a bit timid in front of the microphone. "Ae," she said, meaning "yes" in Hawaiian, when asked a question by a male voice. "Ae hanau ia wau i Honoma'ele." ("Yes, ...