When Nathan Acevedo, a junior Spanish education and Chinese double major at the University of Delaware, first began learning Spanish in high school, he was “really bad at it” and almost quit. But ...

Imagine a near future in which people no longer learn language. Instead we stream it, much like many of us, today, stream music or movies, on demand to our computers. But in the future, we would ...

Sign up for our Wine Club today. Did you know you can support The Nation by drinking wine? Anyone who grows up multilingual knows that words are more than just labels ...

The structure of the language spoken by a company’s top team affects the firm’s planning for the future, according to doctoral student Hao Liang, Christopher Marquis of Harvard Business School, and ...

Our brave new digital world’s been causing some strife for language pedants – and if noughties text-speak felt bad, woe betide our new diet of acronyms and aubergine emoji. How has our language, and ...

Smaller language models can be based on a billion parameters or less—still pretty large, but much smaller than foundational LLMs like ChatGPT and Bard. To get value from generative AI, the path ...

More than 150 academics, novelists, poets, scientists and other experts of language have descended on San Juan, Puerto Rico, this week to debate the future of Spanish — and whether words such as ...

Here's something to think about as you sip your latté (or your piña colada) while listening to Beyoncé (or Mötley Crüe): Just how important to the English language are accented characters? And will ...

In the Japanese language, the distinction between present and future tense is a little blurry. English phrases like "will" or "be going to," which indicate the future, do exist, but denoting the ...