It is often thought that humans are different from other animals in some fundamental way that makes us unique, or even more advanced than other species. These claims of human superiority are sometimes used to justify the ways we treat other animals,

The creation of "Generation Ships" or Interstellar Arks has been the subject of many scientific studies and proposals that can accommodate multiple generations of human beings and take them to a distant planet or could help to colonize the known universe.

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The innovative device turns finger movements into electrical signals and ultimately into spoken words through a smartphone app.

A linguistic anthropologist who is also a baseball aficionado reflects on what can be learned from how language mashups play out on and off the baseball diamond.

Mongolia has announced plans to restore the use of its traditional alphabet by 2025, replacing the Cyrillic script adopted under the Soviets as it moves away from Russian influence.

In the debate over freedom versus control of the global network, China was largely correct, and the U.S. was wrong.

This article introduces the best app to learn French online and explains how long it takes to learn French and how to become fluent fast.

In this article, we address the main challenges and difficulties in learning a foreign language and how Encore!!! app can help with their overcoming.

If you’ve decided to learn Spanish language, check out our tips on the best ways to learn Spanish on your own. Make learning fun and productive!

Benefits of bilingualism go way beyond the ability to function in a foreign country, which is why bilingual education is a topic of growing importance.

Encore!!! app presents 2020’s best techniques for learning a foreign language. For educators or students, Encore can teach you a new language fast.

The Scripps National Spelling Bee ended in a historic eight-way tie when the final octet of contenders fielded everything the dictionary threw at them

Dr Marcelo Montemurro from the University of Manchester and Dr Damian Zanette from the Centro Atómico Bariloche e Instituto Balseiro, Argentina, claim to have found linguistic patterns in the world’s most mysterious book, the Voynich manuscript.

Fast-accumulating data seem to indicate that our close cousins, the Neanderthals, were much more similar to us than imagined even a decade ago. But did they have anything like modern speech and language? And if so, what are the implications for understanding present-day linguistic diversity?

Doctors are looking into the mystery of an American man who awoke speaking only Swedish, with no memory of his past, after he was found unconscious four months ago at a motel in southern California. Michael Boatwright, 61, woke up with amnesia, calling himself Johan Ek, the Desert Sun reported.

Microsoft Research Asia says they have tested ways the Microsoft Kinect device could translate sign language and help individuals who are deaf communicate.

Language experts at the Oxford English Dictionary said the definition did not change overnight but they will monitor how the word marriage changes over the next year.

India has lost around 20% of its languages in the past five decades, a survey by the Vadodara-based Bhasha Research and Publication Centre has revealed.

Apple makes free texting convenient by bundling its own iMessage system with SMS. But there's a dark side.