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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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. 

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?

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.

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.

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

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

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