Speaking from my experience as a Spanish-language learner, it can be pretty scary to try speaking in a new language. Here are some ideas from teachers to help our students do just that ... Irina ...

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy declares the “Babel” fish to be “probably the oddest thing in the Universe.” It’s described as a “leech-like” fish that fits into your ear, feeds off of the ...

For years, scientists have gathered evidence that learning and speaking multiple languages changes the brain. But a new study published in Nature Aging suggests those changes may go deeper than anyone ...

Africa is a multilingual continent and many adults speak several languages fluently. An empirical study by a psycholinguist now shows that the roots of this multilingualism can be found in infancy: In ...