Suppose you decided to start learning a new language—let’s say Italian. In the beginning stages of your language-learning journey, the Italian speech you’ll hear will likely sound like a stream of ...

One of the challenges for teachers of foreign languages is preparing students for exams which focus on grammar. Many teachers ...

I wouldn't exactly say the French has been going well. A few decades after I left behind my high school language requirement (and the middling grades that accompanied it), I decided recently it was ...

In our diverse and interconnected world, learning foreign languages is not only a powerful skill, but also essential for cross-cultural communication. But as translation and interpretation tools ...

There is little evidence that many students achieve much fluency in high school." Jay Mathews Washington Post As a freshman in high school I took French I and after earning a 75, I trudged on to ...

A number of organizations support language learning, including Chinese early language and immersion education. While each one has its distinct mission, they offer a wide range of activities such as ...

When the protagonist in the British cult sci-fi novel "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" sticks a creature called a Babel fish in his ear, it translates all alien speech for him. Can artificial ...

Florence Myles received funding from the ESRC (Economic and Social Research Funding Council) for the study 'Learning French from ages 5, 7 and 11: an investigation into starting ages, rates and routes ...

When twins Ryan and Michael D’Introno entered kindergarten two years ago, they often came home from school singing songs in Spanish, part of a language immersion program their school in Bedford Hills, ...

March 18, 2014 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google Besides the personal satisfaction of learning a new language, becoming fluent in a language could boost your ...

The inability of too many Americans to learn or speak anything but English constitutes a foreign language “emergency” that could end up harming the economy and impairing U.S. foreign policy, according ...