Psycholinguistics is a field at the intersection of psychology and linguistics, and one of its recent discoveries is that the languages we speak influence our eye movements. For example, English ...

After growing up across countries, I knew I wanted my kids to be multilingual — fluent in Dutch, German, and English from ...

The English language has at least half a million words, depending on what dictionary you're looking at. English consists of letters running from the left side of the page to the right, while other ...

AI language tutor startup Speak has raised $78M in a new funding round, at a $1B valuation. The Series C round was led by Accel with support from existing investors including the OpenAI Startup Fund, ...

In some Indian languages, the word for “language” is bhasha—the vowels long and warm, as in “car” or “tar.” It has a formal weight and a refined spirit. It comes to us from the classical heights of ...

If you’re enrolling your child in California state-subsidized preschool this fall, you’ll be asked new questions about what languages they speak and understand. It’s part of a new effort to identify ...

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 ...

Many of us have had the experience, when sitting in a foreign language class or visiting another country, of fumbling for the words to convey our thoughts. In a brilliant essay from his book Me Talk ...

Instant, easy language translation technology is fast becoming a common feature of everyday products, and could soon be coming to Apple Airpods. I live in the future, at least as far as language ...