Traveling involves learning a bit of a foreign language, using gestures, hand pointing, and hoping you can order a coffee. It makes it better when they waiter j

Tracing Our Linguistic Roots Through DNA For millennia, dialects spread across Europe and the Caucasus, creating what we now call Indo-European languages. But diving into the clouded past of these languages isn’t easy—especially since writing only began to develop hesitantly around Mesopotamia at the time. So how do we reconstruct…

Learning languages may keep your brain young, but the evidence for preventing dementia itself is far less clearcut.

Learn more about a new study challenging the commonly held belief that language is wired more for danger than for safety. 

Pupils with English as an Additional Language (EAL) are defined as those who speak a language other than English at home. This definition includes a highly diverse cohort, ranging from multilingual British citizens to recently arrived refugees and migrants. As…Read more English as an additional language (EAL) ›

Why does a country have 843 languages while another has only two? See how geography, isolation, and history have shaped the world’s languages.