If you are wondering what the figurative language is, this article explains the meaning of this term and provides the figurative language examples.

Despite the conventional wisdom, a new study shows picking up the subtleties of grammar in a second language does not fade until well into the teens

Do you know how to say apropos? What about awry? We want to know which words you’ve mispronounced – and how you found out your mistake

Applications need to go global, but language support comes at a cost. For one thing, supporting multiple languages demands additional testing rigor.

When Neguine Rezaii first moved to the United States a decade ago, she hesitated to tell people she was Iranian. Instead, she would use Persian. “I figured that people probably wouldn’t know what that was,” she says. 

Leading online reference announces more than 15,000 changes, intended to foreground people over clinical language

Control of language has been a tool used to manipulate and eliminate cultural identity. Can we save dying languages from this fate?

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.

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

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.

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,

Speaking with a correct accent is one of the areas language students struggle with the most. But, is a spot on native accent that important?

Looking for the best language learning podcasts in 2020? In this article, we will choose the best podcasts for learning the most popular languages.

35% of the respondents said that playing games made them better readers

If you're wondering about the best language learning websites, here are our top 16 picks. These contain free language learning websites as well as paid.

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.