Working out during a language class amplifies an adult’s ability to memorize, retain and understand new vocabulary.

A new study documents the speed at which American English has stretched around the globe – and its influence is even felt within the UK

Don’t assume that young children’s natural language abilities will lead to true grown-up language skills without a good deal of effort.

A new study suggests that people who speak two languages fluently think about time differently depending on the language context in which they are estimating the duration of events.

With interesting formations of English words and a large crop of loanwords, Indian English is a fascinating English dialect. Let’s see how well you know it!

Learning is not easy, especially when you have tons of books and courses to read. But can you do it when the exam is so close, and you already feel exhausted from so much studying? Fortunately, there are several simple actions that you can take to keep yourself alert and be able to study even when you feel that your brain will explode.

Language immersion environment best for young children, the classroom setting is better for early teenagers, while self-guided language learning is better for adults.

German is a wonderfully inventive and bold language, full of gloriously long compound words for emotions and ideas that most languages struggle to allow us to express.

A certain genre of books about English extols the language’s supposed difficulty and idiosyncrasy. “Crazy English”, by an American folk-linguist, Richard Lederer, asks “how is it that your nose can run and your feet can smell?”. Bill Bryson’s “Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way” says that “English is full of booby traps for the unwary foreigner…Imagine being a foreigner and having to learn that in English one tells a lie but the truth.”

1922, in “Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus,” the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein wrote, “The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.” The words that we have at our disposal affect what we see—and the more words there are, the better our perception. When we learn to speak a different language, we learn to see a bigger world.

No language-learning program knows what it’s talking about when they say they can show you how to learn a language like a baby. There’s no other way.

You can learn to speak Italian without even picking up a pen. Watching videos is a great way to learn a language; you can hear a variety of voices, listen to correct pronunciation, and decide when and where you want to learn. In this article, Italian teacher Liz T. takes you through 10 of her favorite YouTube channels for learning Italian…

Learn languages by reading books on paralleltext.io. See translation for sentences and listen in parallel in many different languages.

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An MRI experiment shows that the language you hear as a baby makes a permanent imprint on your brain. By Charlie Sorrel.

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Each language forces you to think in a slightly different way. There are many concepts that can be expressed easily in one language but not in another. The first thing people think of when asked about differences in vocabulary used in different languages is just isolated words, such as English having no equivalent to the German word Schadenfreude, which means “pleasure derived from the misfortunes of others”.

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There is renewed struggle by many Indigenous people to keep their native languages alive. By Jason Coppola.

The phrase "y'all" might not simply be the shortened form of "you all" — but something far more complex